Rendez-vous

Juliette Binoche illuminates the screen in her star-making breakthrough performance in this provocative backstage tale of art, sex, and stardom. She is transfixing as Nina, a young, carefree wannabe actress who arrives in Paris in search of her big break. There she finds drama both on- and offstage as she becomes involved with three men: a mild-mannered real-estate agent (Wadeck Stanczak) who offers her stability, a bad-boy actor (Lambert Wilson) who lives dangerously on the edge, and an intense theater director (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who casts her in a production of “Romeo and Juliet.” As opening night approaches, the emotional extremes of Nina’s love life begin to serve as fuel for her art.

Starring Juliette Binoche, Lambert Wilson, Wadeck Stanczak