In the new French film “Both Sides of the Blade,” Juliette Binoche plays Sara, a Parisian public radio host who’s lived happily with her partner Jean for the decade since her former lover Francois broke things off with her.
Then one morning as she arrives to work, she sees Francois (Gregoire Colin) on the street and is overwhelmed with a rush of emotions for what they’d had, and perhaps the sense that she’s not felt those same things as much with Jean (Vincent Lindon).
In director Claire Denis’ film, Sara is torn between two lovers whose need to possess her completely makes her position even more untenable. It’s a place, Binoche says on a recent call, that she’d experienced years earlier in her real life.
