Starring:
Lambert Wilson
Juliette Binoche
Wadeck Stanczcak
Jean-Louis Trintignant
PREMIERE - September '95
Juliette Binoche gives an electrifying performance in her first leading role in the searingly memorable and deeply moving Rendez-Vous, a mesmerising study of love, loss, and redemption.
Free-spirited actress Nina (Juliette Binoche) has just turned 18 and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of being an actress. Following a string of casual sexual encounters she meets timid estate-agent Paulot (Wadeck Stanczak). He is immediately smitten with her but she is more interested in his flatmate Quentin (Lambert Wilson). Quentin is an aggressive, emotionally disturbed actor who performs in live sex shows. Quentin and Nina are drawn into an intensely sexual and violent relationship that is overshadowed by a disturbing and ultimately dangerous secret from his past.
Into this triangle comes theatre director Scrutzler (Jean-Louis Trintignant). He casts Nina as Juliet in his new staging of Romeo and Juliet. But does Nina have the emotional maturity and the talent to fully explore this complex role? Is her performance defined by her relationship with Quentin?
Rendez-Vous was Juliette Binoche's first leading role. She was cast at short notice before filming began in December 1984. This role epitomised her early persona as a complex and thoroughly modern protagonist. She received her first César nomination as Best Actress for Rendez-Vous, while director André Téchiné won the Best Director award at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
Quentin
Nina
Paulot
Scrutzler
Gertrude
L'administratrice
Fred
Le régisseur
Olimpia
Juliette
Max
Lambert Wilson
Juliette Binoche
Wadeck Stanczak
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Dominique Lavanant
Anne Wiazemsky
Jean-Louis Vitrac
Philippe Landoulsi
Olimpia Carlisi
Caroline Faro
Jacques Nolot
Directed by
Written by
Produced by
Original music by
Cinematography by
Film editing by
Production design by
Costume design by
Production manager
Unit manager
André Téchiné
André Téchiné
Olivier Assayas
Alain Terzian
Philippe Sarde
Renato Berta
Martine Giordano
Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko
Christian Gasc
Armand Barbault
Jean-François Pierrard
Assistant unit manager
First assistant director
Second assistant director
Assistant director
Sound
Stills photographer
Script supervisor
Produced by
Jean-Michel Hullaert
Michel Béna
Bruno Herbulot
Philippe Landoulsi
Dominique Hennequin
Jean-Louis Ughetto
Martine Peccoux
Michèle Andreucci
Films A2
T. Films
a film by André Téchiné
1985
For me, this film was like a detonator,
a birth. I felt for the first time that a director trusted me. I was not a good actress at the start. I was too expressive, like a clown, too theatrical. I felt close
to my character, to her loneliness and
to her journey of discovery through her profession and close to her desire to be an actress.”
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French trailer with English subtitles
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Italian reissue trailer
Original audition featuring Juliette Binoche
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Juliette Binoche talks about Rendez-Vous
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Juliette Binoche, André Téchiné and
Lambert Wilson at Cannes, 1985 (FR)
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"Theme from Rendez-vous"
"Le Club"