Juliette Binoche Is Taking Christian Louboutin to the Theater

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“I’ve seen this play three times, and it’s five and a half hours long,” said the actress, who stars in the new movie “The Return.”

When she starred in “Chocolat,” Juliette Binoche brought handmade chocolates to the set for her fellow cast members. “I was appalled when Johnny Depp threw it away because he didn’t like chocolate. It made me laugh, of course,” she said.Credit…Stephanie Lecocq/Reuters

Nov. 30, 2024, 5:00 a.m. ET

In Homer’s “Odyssey,” Penelope waits 20 years for her husband, Odysseus, to come home after winning the Trojan War.

Juliette Binoche waited even longer to reunite with Ralph Fiennes after “The English Patient,” the 1996 film in which they co-starred.

Their collaboration this time: “The Return,” Uberto Pasolini’s reimagining of Homer’s epic, and a project the filmmaker worked on for 30 years.

Binoche was excited by Pasolini’s vision for the movie — a kind of stripped-down landscape with actors wrapped in cloth instead of costumes.

“There was something bare about it. He tried to really go to the core of the dialogue,” she said in a video call from Paris. “He made those characters very human.”

Binoche was also at a point in her life where “I was in touch with the feeling of abandonment, the feeling of the patience that you need to have for this male side of anger, of going into the world and conquering,” she said.

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