Juliette Binoche, at the top of the steps – Liberation

The famous May 1968 edition Does it risk reproducing? Because the Cannes Film Festival will take place this year against the backdrop of geopolitical, cultural and social upheavals of an unprecedented scale, which will be difficult to avoid in the projection rooms and outside. One wondered who could chair the jury with enough authority and kindness to avoid a possible conflagration, and the answer suddenly seemed obvious. Juliette Binoche – We told you that the answer was obvious – answered questions from our journalist With its usual candor, and with this generous intrepidity which has always guided it. Cannes? « A place of provocation, astonishment »she said, therefore accepting immediately to direct an body where anything can happen. The proof, the festival opens on Tuesday and Donald Trump has already drawndefining foreign films as « A threat to national security » of the United States.

The president of the 2025 jury is proof of the contrary, having received an Oscar in Hollywood for The English patient. If this debate is exceeded, others await their turn, such as the importance of series at the festival, the use of artificial intelligence in films and filming conditions for actors and certainly for actresses. A year ago, Binoche revealed in Release The multiple assaults of all kinds that she had to face in her beginnings in the cinema, an icing #MeToo monologue that still resonates in this too often cold and apathetic cinema. Saving her wounds, she continued her climb of the steps by harvesting practically all possible honors, illuminating in the passage of the films that her talent has transformed into masterpieces. So, the bustle in Cannes is fine, she knows.