"It's so warm in here!" exclaims Juliette Binoche. "You know in (Michael) Haneke's film, I have a scene where I kind of suffocate and I think that I'm going to die? It feels like that! Do you think you can open the window?"
The grande dame of French cinema has suffered for her art — she nearly drowned during the filming of Leos Carax's "The Lovers on the Bridge" — but the stuffy hotel room where she's conducting interviews today has apparently pushed her to the brink.
"The air, for me, it's vital," she explains. "We've been working in a forest for two months!"