Editing Juliette Binoche (section)

===2001–2006===
[[File:Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno.jpg|thumb|upright|Juliette Binoche and [[Jean Reno]] at [[Cannes Film Festival|Cannes]], 2002]]
After the success of ''Chocolat'', Binoche was internationally recognized as an A-list movie star in the early 2000s, but as an actor her persona became somewhat fixed following a series of [[period piece|period roles]] portraying a stoic heroine facing tragedy and desolation.<ref name=autogenerated8 /> Keen to try something new, Binoche returned to French cinema in 2002 in an unlikely role: she played a ditsy beautician in ''[[Jet Lag (film)|Jet Lag]]'' opposite [[Jean Reno]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/275248/Jet-Lag/overview | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121161753/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/275248/Jet-Lag/overview | url-status=dead | archive-date=21 November 2007 | first=Stephen | last=Holden | department=Movies & TV Dept. | work=[[The New York Times]] | author-link=Stephen Holden | date=2007 | title=Jet Lag (2002)}}</ref> The film, directed by [[Daniele Thompson]], was a box office hit in France and Binoche was once again nominated for a César for Best Actress.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allocine.fr/festivals/festival-128/edition-18350590/palmares/ |title=Palmares : César 2003 : récompenses, nominations – AlloCiné |work=Allocine.fr |access-date=2 August 2011}}</ref> The film tells the story of a couple who meet at an airport during a strike. Initially the pair despises each other, but, over the course of one night, they find common ground and maybe even love. This playful spirit continued when Binoche featured in a 2003 Italian television commercial for the chocolates [[Ferrero Rocher]]. The advertisement played upon her ''Chocolat'' persona featuring Binoche handing out the chocolates to people on the streets of Paris.<ref>{{cite web |author=Alessandro Izzi |url=http://www.close-up.it/spip.php?article730 |title=Spot: Il segreto di Juliette by Close-Up.it – rivista e magazine di cinema, teatro e musica con recensioni, forum, blog – diretta da Giovanni Spagnoletti |work=work-up.it |access-date=2 August 2011 |archive-date=24 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724172148/http://www.close-up.it/spip.php?article730 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In a more serious vein, Binoche traveled to South Africa to make [[John Boorman]]'s ''[[In My Country (2004 film)|In My Country]]'' (2004) opposite [[Samuel L. Jackson]]. Based on the book ''[[Country of My Skull]]'' by [[Antjie Krog]], the film examines [[The Truth and Reconciliation Commission|The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings]] following the abolition of Apartheid in the mid-1990s.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/299150/In-My-Country/overview | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103135731/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/299150/In-My-Country/overview | url-status=dead | archive-date=3 November 2007 | first=Stephen | last=Holden | department=Movies & TV Dept. | work=[[The New York Times]] | author-link=Stephen Holden | date=2007 | title=In My Country (2004)}}</ref> Although the film premiered at the [[Berlin International Film Festival|2004 Berlin International Film Festival]], it received much criticism for the inclusion of a fictional romantic liaison and for its depiction of black South Africans.<ref>[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/in_my_country/ In My Country Movie Reviews, Pictures]. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 7 January 2011.</ref> Despite the negative reception, Binoche was extremely enthusiastic about the film and her connection with Boorman.<ref>{{cite web |author=Todd Gilchrist |url=http://ie.movies.ign.com/articles/599/599142p1.html |title=Interview: Juliette Binoche – Movies Feature at IGN |work=Ie.movies.ign.com |date=28 March 2005 |access-date=2 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818080344/http://ie.movies.ign.com/articles/599/599142p1.html |archive-date=18 August 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://movies.about.com/od/inmycountry/a/incountry031005.htm |title=Juliette Binoche Interview – In My Country Movie Co-Starring Samuel L Jackson |work=Movies.about.com |date=17 June 2010 |access-date=2 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201140023/http://movies.about.com/od/inmycountry/a/incountry031005.htm |archive-date=1 February 2012 }}</ref> Her sister, Marion Stalens, also traveled to South Africa to shoot a documentary, ''La réconciliation?'', which explores the TRC process and follows Binoche's progress as she acts in Boorman's film.<ref name=autogenerated9>{{cite web |url=http://www.idfa.nl/industry/tags/project.aspx?id=1db5dadf-c2f3-465c-b37a-3935e914561a |title=IDFA &#124; International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam |work=Idfa.nl |access-date=2 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904060052/https://www.idfa.nl/industry/tags/project.aspx?id=1db5dadf-c2f3-465c-b37a-3935e914561a |archive-date=4 September 2015 }}</ref> Next, Binoche re-teamed with Michael Haneke for ''[[Caché (film)|Caché]]''. The film was an immediate success, winning best director for Haneke at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/artist/id/6443.html |title=Festival de Cannes – From 11 to 22 May 2011 |work=Festival-cannes.com |access-date=2 August 2011 |archive-date=22 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822151517/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/artist/id/6443.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> while Binoche was nominated for a European Film Award for Best Actress for her role.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/2008/09/04/2005 |title=EFA » 2005 |publisher=European Film Academy |access-date=2 August 2011 |archive-date=31 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110731131232/http://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/2008/09/04/2005/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The film tells the story of a bourgeois Parisian couple, played by Binoche and [[Daniel Auteuil]], who begin to receive anonymous videotapes containing footage shot over long periods, surveying the outside of their home. ''Caché'' went on to feature in the number one position on the "Top 10 of the 2000s" list published by The Times at the end of the decade.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/the-100-best-films-of-the-decade-flddn6zsp96 | location=London | work=The Times | title=The 100 Best Films of the Decade | date=7 November 2009 | first=Sadie | last=Gray}}</ref>

Binoche's next film, ''[[Bee Season (film)|Bee Season]]'', based on the celebrated novel by [[Myla Goldberg]], cast her opposite [[Richard Gere]]. The film was not a success at the box office taking less than $5&nbsp;million worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2005/BSESN.php |title=Bee Season – Box Office Data, Movie News, Cast Information – The Numbers |work=The-numbers.com |access-date=2 August 2011 |archive-date=6 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106211344/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2005/BSESN.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> For many critics the film, although intelligent, was "distant and diffuse".<ref>[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bee_season/ Bee Season Movie Reviews, Pictures]. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 7 January 2011.</ref> ''Bee Season'' depicts the emotional disintegration of a family just as their daughter begins to win national spelling bees. ''[[Mary (2005 film)|Mary]]'' (2005) featured Binoche in a somewhat unlikely collaboration with the controversial American director [[Abel Ferrara]] for an investigation of modern faith and [[Mary Magdalene]]'s position within the Catholic Church.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/news/2008/10/abel-ferrara-mary/ |title=ABEL FERRARA, "MARY" &#124; The Filmmaker Magazine Blog |work=Filmmakermagazine.com |date=17 October 2008 |access-date=2 August 2011}}</ref> Featuring [[Forest Whitaker]], [[Matthew Modine]] and [[Marion Cotillard]], ''Mary'' was a success, winning the Grand Prix at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. Despite these accolades and favorable reviews, particularly from the cultural magazine ''[[Les Inrockuptibles]]'',<ref>[http://www.allocine.fr/film/revuedepresse_gen_cfilm=58061.html Critiques Presse pour le film Mary – AlloCiné]. Allocine.fr. Retrieved 7 January 2011.</ref> ''Mary'' failed to secure a distributor in key markets such as the US and the UK.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.unifrance.org/movie/26556/mary/complete |title=Mary – Feature film, Fiction – uniFrance |work=En.unifrance.org |access-date=2 August 2011}}</ref>

The Cannes Film Festival in 2006 saw Binoche feature in the [[anthology film]] ''[[Paris, je t'aime]]'' appearing in a section directed by the Japanese director [[Nobuhiro Suwa]]. Suwa's ''[[Place des Victoires]]'' is the story of a grief-stricken mother who manages to have a final brief moment with her dead son. The segment also features [[Willem Dafoe]] and [[Hippolyte Girardot]]. ''Paris, je t'aime'' was a popular success, taking over $17&nbsp;million, at the world box-office.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2007/PJTME.php |title=Paris, je t'aime – Box Office Data, Movie News, Cast Information – The Numbers |work=The-numbers.com |access-date=2 August 2011 |archive-date=19 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919153422/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2007/PJTME.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> In September 2006, Binoche appeared at the [[Venice Film Festival]] to launch ''[[A Few Days in September (film)|A Few Days in September]]'', written and directed by [[Santiago Amigorena]]. Despite an impressive cast including [[John Turturro]], [[Nick Nolte]] and up-and-coming French star [[Sara Forestier]], the film was a failure. ''A Few Days in September'' is a thriller set between 5 and 11 September 2001, in which Binoche plays a French secret service agent, who may, or may not, have information relating to impending attacks on the U.S.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/357705/A-Few-Days-in-September/overview | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071101132702/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/357705/A-Few-Days-in-September/overview | url-status=dead | archive-date=1 November 2007 | department=Movies & TV Dept. | work=[[The New York Times]] | author=Mark Deming | date=2007 | title=A Few Days in September (2006)}}</ref> The film was the recipient of harsh criticism from the press for its perceived trivialisation of the events of 11 September 2001.<ref>[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/few_days_in_september/ A Few Days in September (Quelques jours en septembre) Movie Reviews, Pictures]. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 7 January 2011.</ref> While promoting the film in the UK, Binoche told an interviewer she believed the CIA and other government agencies must have had foreknowledge of the [[11 September attacks]], as depicted in the film.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Groskop |first=Viv |journal=The Daily Telegraph |title=Juliette Binoche: Femme fatale|date=31 August 2007 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3667661/Juliette-Binoche-Femme-fatale.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3667661/Juliette-Binoche-Femme-fatale.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=28 May 2009 |location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Next, Binoche traveled to the [[Toronto International Film Festival|2006 Toronto International Film Festival]] for the premiere of ''[[Breaking and Entering (film)|Breaking and Entering]]'', her second film with Anthony Minghella in the director's chair, based on his first original screenplay since his breakthrough film ''[[Truly, Madly, Deeply (film)|Truly, Madly, Deeply]]'' (1991). In ''Breaking and Entering'', Binoche played a Bosnian refugee living in London, while [[Jude Law]] co-starred as a well-to-do businessman drawn into her life via an act of deception. In preparation for her role, Binoche traveled to [[Sarajevo]] where she met women who had survived the war of the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=18749 |title=Breaking and Entering's Minghella and Binoche |work=Comingsoon.net |date=5 February 2007 |access-date=2 August 2011 |archive-date=11 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011195000/http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=18749 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Lushly photographed by [[Benoît Delhomme]], ''Breaking and Entering'' portrays intersecting lives amongst the flux of urban renewal in inner-city London.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://movies.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/movies/26brea.html | work=The New York Times | first=A. O. | last=Scott | title=Love Means Always Having to Say You're Sorry | date=26 January 2007}}</ref> Despite the fact that Binoche was praised for her performance, the film did not ring true for critics and failed to find an audience.<ref>[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/breaking_and_entering/ Breaking and Entering Movie Reviews, Pictures]. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 7 January 2011.</ref> In a review in ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', Todd McCarthy writes that, "Binoche, physically unchanged as ever, plays Amira's controlled anguish with skill".<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=awardcentral&jump=reviews&reviewid=VE1117931566&starting=6 | work=Variety | first=Todd | last=McCarthy | title=Breaking and Entering Movie Review | date=13 September 2006 | access-date=20 February 2020 | archive-date=19 May 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519190526/http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=awardcentral&jump=reviews&reviewid=VE1117931566&starting=6 | url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Breaking and Entering'' also featured [[Robin Wright]], [[Vera Farmiga]], [[Juliet Stevenson]], [[Rafi Gavron]] and [[Martin Freeman]].

Although Binoche began the decade on a professional high with an Academy Award nomination for ''Chocolat'', she struggled at the beginning of the 2000s to secure roles that did not confine her to the tragic, melancholic persona developed in the 1990s.<ref name=autogenerated13>{{cite web |last=Anderson |first=Jeffrey M. |url=http://blog.moviefone.com/2010/07/12/their-best-role-juliette-binoche/ |title=Their Best Role: Juliette Binoche – The Moviefone Blog |work=Blog.moviefone.com |date=12 July 2010 |access-date=2 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803110403/http://blog.moviefone.com/2010/07/12/their-best-role-juliette-binoche/ |archive-date=3 August 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Despite the huge success of ''Caché'', other high-profile films such as ''In My Country'', ''Bee Season'' and ''Breaking and Entering'' failed critically<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/juliette_binoche/ |title=Juliette Binoche – News, Filmography, Pictures |work=Rottentomatoes.com |access-date=2 August 2011}}</ref> and commercially.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/people/JBINO.php |title=Juliette Binoche – Box Office Data Movie Star |work=The-numbers.com |access-date=2 August 2011 |archive-date=29 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110829052934/http://the-numbers.com/people/JBINO.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> Binoche again seemed to be at a crossroads in her career.<ref name="autogenerated13" />