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 Men, as Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwarzenneger and Sylvester
Stallone proved by bringing the roadshow to promote their "The
Expendables 3" over-the-hill mercenaries franchise to Cannes
last weekend, can continue to play the same action heroes into
their 60s or even 70s.
But a woman can't play a starlet after a certain age, nor should
she want to, Binoche, who reached global stardom in such films
as "The English Patient" and "Chocolat" said at a post-screening
news conference.
The film was the last of the 18 in competition for the top Palme
d'Or prize to be screened before the main awards are announced
on Saturday.
"Imagine if for 40 years you played the part of 20-year-old,
you'd get very bored," Binoche said. "Of course you can't play
the same parts all the time."
In the film, Binoche plays Maria Enders, an actress whose career
resembles her own and who now is in her 40s.
Enders's first big success was playing an aggressive young woman
who is employed by a middle-aged woman executive who runs a
company. She seduces the older woman and destroys her.
Assayas's film shows Binoche's character being asked 20 years
later to play the older woman, while an aggressive, media-savvy
young American actress (Chloe Grace Moretz of the "Kickass"
films) will take the role of the younger one.
Enders has a great deal of difficulty coping with doing the role
of the older woman but as the film progresses she finally comes
to term with it, and realizes she can bring to the part
something no younger actress could.
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"I think the more experience you have, the more you focus on the
really important questions, you open up, you mature, you become more
skilled, more honed," Binoche said.
"Think about (Canadian pianist) Glenn Gould, when he played Bach at
the beginning and at the end of his career he didn't play Bach the
same way.
"In other words, something happens inside yourself, within yourself.
You're more aware of certain things because life shapes you.
Fortunately we do change, we evolve."
FRENCH CINEMA IS "RAW"
Moretz said that unlike the character she portrays, who finds a way
to humiliate Binoche's character even while smiling at her, she had
relished the prospect of working with Binoche and Assayas, whose
films she has admired for years.
"Obviously to work with Olivier, not on any project but specifically
a French project with Juliette, would be so special," she said.
"I think there's something so much more innovative about French
cinema than American because it's alive and there's something that
is very raw about it that we can't capture in America yet."
(Writing by Michael Roddy; Editing by Ralph Boulton)
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