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hrc 09/19/2009 10:01 PM Report
Fascinating: Love and energy, well being.
robdverity 09/18/2009 01:08 PM Report
P.S. Maybe it's her bedroom look.
robdverity 09/18/2009 01:05 PM Report
nowan - appreciate your heroic analytics. She seemed to strike a different chord with a lot of us - including Charlie. Maybe it's a male thing(?). Like she's encroached on a previous province of male presumption(?): that of indiscriminate casting-of-seeds-of-propagation was a Darwinian thing. Even an evolutionary prerogative. The pill, the changing mores, the gender-neutral primal urges all coalesce to produce a not-so-gauche Ms Binouche. With age her remorse will likely be more regret for those not had than otherwise. Sounds so gay and cavalier. But what do I know, I'm sure my ex has had more 'companions' than I, which is good - as long as her psyche is in tune with it - and the 'experiences-on-balance' remain positive even in their memory. Like I said before I'm over my head and should have quit long ago. Mea culpa.
nowan 09/17/2009 11:04 PM Report
Not to blather on (although I am) but I neglected to point out that she's an artist. Not just as an actor but also as a painter (and poet / writer). It's my true belief that the brain of an artist just "works differently" (than my brain and the brain of other non-artists). I think I have a healthy ability to appreciate art, but no real talent for creating art. Artists "see things" differently. If you saw Charlie's interview with Jill Bolte Taylor (Sep 4) or are familiar with her book, you should know that when her left brain became damaged and she was in her "right mind," she perceived the world very differently. She was more "in the moment" (her term) and less "rational" (or "practical"). I found that insight very interesting because I do believe that the artistic brain is just "wired differently" (again, for lack of a better term). Of course, you-know-who was also an artist, which is why I've given this so much freaking thought! So Ms. Binoche's philosophy may well be nothing more than a function of the way her brain works -- which is likely hard for non-artists to understand. And vice-versa.
nowan 09/17/2009 10:38 PM Report
Her IMDB page lists 5 "companions" for her, beginning in 1986 when she was ~21 years old, and the last being Santiago Amigorena, her current companion as of 2007. She had a daughter with one of those companions and a son in 1993 with Andre Halle, a professional scuba driver who is not listed as a "companion." Her first-listed Personal Quote is: "Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life...I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn." So it seems that she's definitely not the "marrying type" unless you don't mind being married for just a couple or three years. Then again, who can say it wasn't the men who broke it off. That may be, but I don't get that sense of it from her. I think she's a "free spirit" who wants to experience all she can and doesn't want to be tied to any one man for too long. There's nothing wrong with that as long as you don't mislead your "companion" into believing he's "the one." So she could just be a free spirit OR she could be searching to find herself (meaning she doesn't know herself too well). Or maybe she doesn't want to fall in love too hard and get HER heart broken. But her quote seems to give a hint of her philosophy: live for the moment, & the past is a page to turn. Personally, I have a little bit of a problem with this sort of person but maybe that's because I was married to one (who wasn't, let's just say, as honest about it as she could have been). My problem is that it seems to me that "the moment" they live in doesn't mean a whole lot if they're so willing to just "turn the page." She says she doesn't "deny the past" but I doubt that she has a lot of meaningful respect for it. Which means she's somewhat "shallow," for lack of a better word. And that's often hard on the other guy, particularly when he thinks he's in something special only to find out in the end that it didn't seem to mean a whole lot to her. Cuz she just so easily turned the page and moved on. But, as I say, I'm probably not coming from as objective a position as some other folks. Maybe that makes me jaded or maybe that gives me a bit more insight. Take your pick. In any event, she's very charming and attractive and I'm confident that her past companions had a wild ride and enjoyed it while it lasted. It's just that sometimes the aftertaste is a tad bitter. Remember, if it seems too good to be true .... (Oh, and don't forget: Hindsight is 20/20)
JMM 09/17/2009 10:28 PM Report
Conversations like this are such great fun to watch. It fits in well with Juliette’s line of film roles. Enjoyable, while touching on the essences of life.
JMM 09/17/2009 10:28 PM Report
Conversations like this are such great fun to watch. It fits in well with Juliette’s line of film roles. Enjoyable, while touching on the essences of life.
CarolJ 09/17/2009 09:12 PM Report
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alenm09 09/16/2009 09:36 PM Report
One of the most interesting conversations I heard lately...her choice of films is superb!
robdverity 09/16/2009 04:10 PM Report
Too perceptive there RE. Charlie seemed smitten with her open charm as well. She seemed to admit 'having' multiple partners without remorse/regret. Suppose you could label that maturity, acceptance of life as it presents itself. I'm over my head so I quit.
REMant 09/16/2009 02:03 PM Report
Indeed a charming woman. I remember seeing her for the first time on the screen. But for all her activity, I suspect she doesn't really know herself very well. Regarding regret, as someone here mentioned perceptively not long ago, everyone these days seems to want to tell everything to everyone, which to me suggests a need for confession, which is a sort of ritual compulsion that takes the place of the real enjoyment of life that only comes with understanding one's self. When we engage in that kind of behavior, we do indeed regret the things we do not do, because we feel SHOULD have done them. In common parlance, it is said we "obsess" over them. Similarly, neurotic buyers have regrets, because they are uncertain what they should have. I would suppose actors and actresses, and probably novelists and playwrights, too, have trouble deciding what they feel they should be, more than that they are really explorers of human nature, altho it is also often said that those who don't do, teach. It is the existential question. As Ms Binoche remarked, we must learn from experience - we can't simply live like amoebae - tho some have a tougher time of it than others. It does, as she said, involve being humbled, tho if properly chastened one should not term it humilitation. St Francis prayed: "Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." In any case, less neurotic ppl regret things they do to others, not what they fail to do themselves, and we only really love others, when we really love ourselves.