Her 50th birthday this week isn’t the only thing Juliette Binoche deserves to be celebrating this year. The legendary actress is reteaming with Olivier Assayas for one of our most-anticipated films of the year, Clouds of Sils Maria, as well as Godzilla, which looks to be sticking out from the summer pack. Today brings the first trailer for another project, the war drama A Thousand Times Goodnight.
Coming from director Erik Poppe, the film sees her starring opposite Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) as a top war photographer who struggles to balance her dangerous career and family life. Set for a debut in the U.K. on May 2nd, the film’s still awaiting a U.S. release via Film Movement, but one can check out the trailer below (via Live for Films), which features Tornado, from Sigur Rós frontman Jonsi, as well as stills and a poster.
Rebecca is one of the world’s top war photographers. On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, she gets to near, and gets badly hurt. Back home another bomb drops. Her husband and daughters can no longer bear the thought of her dying while at work. She is given an ultimatum: Her work, or her family life. The choice seems obvious.
Rebecca swears to Marcus that she will never go to a war zone again. Yet the conviction that her photos can make a difference keeps pulling at her resolve, making it difficult for her to live a normal life as a mother and wife. Then comes an offer to photograph a refugee camp in Kenya, a place allegedly so safe that daughter Steph is allowed to join her mother…
What do you think of the first trailer?