Rendez-vous
- 1985
- 1h 22m
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6.4/10
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Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.
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- TriviaIn 2023, Juliette Binoche said she was shocked during the scene where Nina is sleeping and Quentin and Paulot, played by Lambert Wilson and Wadeck Stanczak, put their hands between her legs. "One of the actors (I don't know which one, and in a way I don't want to know), took the liberty of touching my sex to wake me up. It was on the initiative of the director or the actor, in any case I remember being shocked. It was my first big role, I didn't say anything at the time, I still think about it. I should have roared!", the actress regretted. In an interview in July 2024, director André Téchiné rejected Binoche's accusation. "Her nudity in the film, I was responsible for it, but at her side, with her consent and approval, not as the only master on board and far from the "marketing" effect of the producer. 'Rendez-Vous' was the story of a woman who wanted to make her body an artistic instrument, nudity was part of the subject...[...] But I can't think I hurt her, it's impossible... And there was no sexual relationship between us," he said.
- Crazy creditsJohn XII 24: "Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains but a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit."
- ConnectionsReferenced in Mardi cinéma: Episode dated 14 May 1985 (1985)
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RENDEZ-VOUS comes from Téchinés 'romantic' period of the 70s and early 80s, comprising of BAROCCO, LES SOEURS BRONTE and HOTEL DES AMERIQUES. Of these four films RENDEZ-VOUS is without doubt the most worthwhile and successful.
In her first leading role Juliette Binoche is a revelation as Nina a provincial girl who has moved to Paris in order to pursue an acting career. She becomes involved with two vastly different men the gentle Paulo (Wadeck Stanckzac) and the dangerous and intense Quentin (Lambert Wilson).
Unpredictable and provocative this girl bounces between both men. However her whole world falls apart when one of them commits suicide. Cast in a production of Romeo and Juliet by the compelling Scrutzler (Jean Louis Trintignant) this young girl begins to confront her own behaviour and psychology.
Téchiné's brief film is full of themes about female artistic urgency.
Is there anything this girl will do in life that she will not do on stage.
Should there be? What is the dynamic that drives such an ambitious yet lost girl. the film deals superbly with all these ideas without ever resorting to simplae answers. Aided by Binoche's fearless performance the film is incredibly emotional and romantic, helped in no small part by a stunning Phillippe Sarde score.
RENDEZ-VOUS is an intense and at time difficult film, but it is worth every effort to begin to explore this girls psychological motivations.
In her first leading role Juliette Binoche is a revelation as Nina a provincial girl who has moved to Paris in order to pursue an acting career. She becomes involved with two vastly different men the gentle Paulo (Wadeck Stanckzac) and the dangerous and intense Quentin (Lambert Wilson).
Unpredictable and provocative this girl bounces between both men. However her whole world falls apart when one of them commits suicide. Cast in a production of Romeo and Juliet by the compelling Scrutzler (Jean Louis Trintignant) this young girl begins to confront her own behaviour and psychology.
Téchiné's brief film is full of themes about female artistic urgency.
Is there anything this girl will do in life that she will not do on stage.
Should there be? What is the dynamic that drives such an ambitious yet lost girl. the film deals superbly with all these ideas without ever resorting to simplae answers. Aided by Binoche's fearless performance the film is incredibly emotional and romantic, helped in no small part by a stunning Phillippe Sarde score.
RENDEZ-VOUS is an intense and at time difficult film, but it is worth every effort to begin to explore this girls psychological motivations.
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- André Téchiné's Rendez-Vous
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- Pont des Arts, Paris 1, Paris, France(Nina and Paulot walking to his apartment)
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- $1,059,334
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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