Juliette Binoche: "You have to work outside the macho codes"

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Of all the things that can happen to you in life, one of the best is

And it's not that we say it, that if necessary too, but that the entire city of San Sebastian shouts it directly.

Wherever you look, she is.

Not only will she receive the first Donostia Award of the 70th edition that concerns us on Sunday, but she is also the protagonist of both the penultimate film by

'

', and the latest by

The first is part of the Perlas selection and the second is one of the must-sees of the competition (by the way, does this last coincidence make sense?).

Well, the actress (Paris, 1964) planted herself before the press early in the morning and, without wishing to close anything, she set out to take stock of everything.

Or almost.

Prize thing.

"I feel privileged," she said by way of introduction.

She was answering a question about age, time and life.

Concrete was not the question.

"I have always maintained a balanced relationship with the directors that I have worked on that discussed the standardized way of relating beauty and youth. I have not frequented that type of cinema that does that."

Pause.

"For me it is essential to consider work as a leap into the unknown, as an adventure towards the new. Always. You

I really like independence and I've always been able to detect right away when it wasn't there." It's clear.

In truth, few actresses have given the cinema so capable of everything and, by the way, so interested in themselves, in their position within the scene, in the cinema, in their own career.

loves to recognize herself in the mirror that gives her back the precise image of, in effect, Juliette Binoche.

A part of her filmography, in fact, runs precisely in that intimate and slightly sacred space in which the actress contemplates herself without masks.

It happened in

, by Olivier Assayas;

it also happened in

, by Abbas Kiarostami, and, in its own way, something similar was seen again in

, by

In the first she gave life to an actress, in the second her character was at the center of a controversy about the truth and her double, and in the third she was a journalist pretending to be someone else.

All three are three late works and all three talk about masks, age, time and life.

Binoche says that she does not regret anything.

Neither on nor off the screen.

He does not despise his role in a

(there he was) or his most celebrated and early work alongside

as '

, or alongside

(

), or with

('

'), or with

(

)...

"And I don't miss the ones I've turned down or even the ones I didn't get," he adds.

And at this point he remembers when, as a young man, the recently deceased

called him for a role.

"I worked as a cashier to earn a living and in the afternoon he went to do the casting. I remember that I went to him with conjunctivitis. One of the tests consisted of reciting a poem by heart and doing it naked. Very hard and very intense. In the end He didn't take me for the part, but he did create a character for me. The shoot was very hard. Godard worked as if he were looking for something he couldn't find. You had to make yourself available to him for months. He wouldn't let you do your makeup and I she constantly turned red with pure emotion...", she says and in the detailed description of the past something like a tribute to the teacher, a recrimination perhaps and the certainty perhaps that is precisely where it all started.

He speaks of

Binoche insists that the important thing is yet to come.

A series, a new film with Uberto Pasolini... Binoche says that he is not able to say whether the cinema of the past was better than that of today or simply "memory always keeps the best".

Binoche declares his love for Isabel Coixet with whom he worked in

Binoche refuses to talk about his personal life.

Binight...

And his side, and without warning, Denis reveals Binoche's secret: "She puts the same passion whatever she does: in the kitchen, in the education of her children, in the garden and, of course, in each scene that she shoots .Her

Binoche is at least three times Binoche.

At least this year in San Sebastian.

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