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2009’s Top 10 Repeat Offenders in Jacques Audiard and Niels Arestrup

If Tahar Rahim’s star shined so bright, it may have been from him playing opposite of Niels Arestrup. Arestrup plays an aged, savant of the prison system – a seedy character not unlike the one he portrayed in Jacques Audiard’s film De battre mon coeur s’est arrete. Love the menacing prowess, raw energy, the fluctuations in mood and the snap moment scary surges of aggression that fill the frame – something to look forward to early next year.
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If Tahar Rahim’s star shined so bright, it may have been from him playing opposite of French actor Niels Arestrup. Arestrup plays an aged, savant of the prison system – a seedy character not unlike the one he portrayed in Jacques Audiard’s film De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté. Love the menacing prowess, raw energy, the fluctuations in mood and the snap moment scary surges of aggression that fill the frame – something to look forward to early next year.

 
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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).

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