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Cannes 2010’s Top 10 New Faces: Introducing William Shimell

Anyone who makes Juillette Binoche cry in my books is not okay. William Shimell didn’t really make the actress cry, but he held his own in his screen debut in an Abbas Kiarostami film. Trained to use his pipes for another reason (the actor actually works in the opera), Shimell plays James Miller, an English author whose latest book “Certified Copy” leaves Binoche’s character tied up in knots, but it is the film’s journey between the two characters after the initial meeting that could be a lesson on how not to love.

Eric Lavallée

Published on May 27, 2010

#2. William Shimell

Anyone who makes Juillette Binoche cry in my books is not okay. William Shimell didn’t really make the actress cry, but he held his own in his screen debut in an Abbas Kiarostami’s Copie Conforme. Trained to use his pipes for another reason (the actor actually works in the opera), Shimell plays James Miller, an English author whose latest book “Certified Copy” leaves Binoche’s character tied up in knots, but it is the film’s journey between the two characters after the initial meeting that could be a lesson on how not to love. The film which was one of the fves in Cannes, will receive support pretty much everywhere excluding Iran.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).