INTERVIEW | FILM

Juliette Binoche: ‘I loved two men at once’

The actress turned to personal experience for her role in Both Sides of the Blade

Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche
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The Sunday Times

In her latest film, Both Sides of the Blade, Juliette Binoche plays a woman who finds herself loving two men. So far, so French. But in this particular love triangle both men soon become aware of what is going on, which makes everything increasingly painful for all concerned, as Binoche knows all too well.

That is because she has been there herself, as she reveals within a few moments of sitting down for our interview in the office of a Paris film company. “I have been through the situation of loving two men at the same time and remember it being difficult,” she says with a laugh. “So, I thought to go through that in a film must be something and I felt it