“It’s so warm in here!” exclaims Juliette Binoche. “You know in (Michael) Haneke’s film, I have a scene where I kind of suffocate and I think that I’m going to die? It feels like that! Do you think you can open the window?”
The grande dame of French cinema has suffered for her art — she nearly drowned during the filming of Leos Carax’s “The Lovers on the Bridge” — but the stuffy hotel room where she’s conducting interviews today has apparently pushed her to the brink.
“The air, for me, it’s vital,” she explains. “We’ve been working in a forest for two months!”
She’s referring to “Vision,” the new film from award-winning director Naomi Kawase. Binoche plays a French essayist, Jeanne, who journeys into the forests of Nara Prefecture to search for a mysterious herb that only appears once every 997 years. Once there, she falls into a relationship with a taciturn ranger, Tomo (Masatoshi Nagase), but it slowly transpires that she’s also mourning the loss of an earlier love.
The project was born at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, where Kawase’s “Radiance” (“Hikari”) was screening in competition. When the director ended up sat at the same table as French producer Marianne Slot during an official dinner, they started plotting to work together............
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