The Oscars are still in the air, and not just in Hollywood, as Tokyo is set to host Juliette Binoche — winner of Best Supporting Actress in 1996 for her role in "The English Patient" — in a weeklong run of "in-i," a dance work she created and is performing with Akram Khan, one of England's hottest choreographers.
Not only is 44-year-old Binoche France's highest-paid actress, she's also a single mom of a 9-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy. Since premiering "in-i" at the National Theatre in London last September, Paris-born Binoche and Khan, whose family is from Bangladesh, have taken their creation to Leicester in the British Midlands, Europe, Montreal, Abu Dhabi and Sydney.
Binoche is clearly on a creative roll: she has also published a book of drawings and paintings that is titled "In-Eyes," which features poetic commentary from film directors she has worked with, including Jean-Luc Godard, Andre Techine, Anthony Minghella and her former partner, Leos Carax (who directed her 1991 breakthrough, "Les Amants du Pont Neuf").