Not every actor would accept a part in a love story with a former real-life lover,
sifting through layers of personal memory and pain to create a thing of beauty for the world to see.
Juliette Binoche is not every actor.
The quiet courage of playing Eugénie in Tran Anh Hung’s “The Taste of Things,” France’s contender for the International Academy Award, with Benoît Magimel, with whom she has a daughter but to whom she had not spoken in years, is one of the things that distinguishes the body of work of the Oscar winner, now in her fourth decade of daring, memorable performances.