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‘Interesting timing’: Juliette Binoche talks Gérard Depardieu as verdict dominates start of Cannes
Depardieu’s sexual assault verdict overshadowed a defiant first day in Cannes, with jury president Juliette Binoche offering a qualified defence of the actor once considered king of the festival
The Oscar-winning actor Juliette Binoche had barely begun her duties as Cannes jury president when she was asked to pass judgment on Depardieu and the wider culture of misogyny and sexual violence within the French film industry. Thierry Fremaux, Cannes’ delegate general, has admitted that he only agreed to screen 2014’s critically reviled football movie United Passions – in which Depardieu played Fifa founder Jules Rimet – because the star insisted on the film’s inclusion. Among the films in contention for this year’s top prize are Eddington, a modern-day western starring Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone, Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, and Die, My Love, a US-set drama from British director Lynne Ramsay.
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