Juliet is joyous...

Rating: 10/10 (18 March 1999)

Juliet Binoche will break your heart...and then return the pieces in a more beautiful whole. Her radiant performance as Hanna is simply the single greatest female performance of our time. She is asked to sustain human interest and a sense of both sadness and wonder. Her face does it all, and more. As the film flickers to her final goodbyes...the heart stops. You don't want the war, the sadness, the terror to end. Because with it will go the inspiration of a nurse who fought so hard to keep others alive, but had those closest to her die. She is the same nurse who commits the ultimate act of kindness despite her training and vows. Juliet's Oscar is a shining moment for Academy voters in recent years. They got it oh-so-right.