Jean-Claude Carrière

Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for a quirky family. When a young girl is murdered, Celestine believes that the groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and sets about to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.

Willem Dafoe is Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh in this biographical drama from the director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Surrealist director Luis Buñuel's 1967 drama about a young housewife who spends her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.

In this French dramedy, a couple's relationship gets tense when she leaves him for his best friend, and then returns to him after that friend dies.

Screen greats Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche lead this romance epic, nominated for Best Cinematography and Adapted Screenplay at the 1989 Academy Awards.

Cannes 2010 was the year of Juliette Binoche. She graced the Festival’s poster; then she took the Best Actress Award for her role in this tantalising film...

Afghanistan wartime drama based on director Atiq Rahimi’s Prix Goncourt-winning novel. A partly allegorical tale, The Patience Stone follows a Muslim wife (Golshifteh Farahani) tending to her formerly abusive soldier husband who now lies comatose after being shot at war. With him in her care, she is able to speak to him for the first time without fear of censorship.