2010’s Top 10: Repeat Offenders in Rachid Bouchareb and Debbouze, Zem, Bouajila and Blancan

Another Top 10/20 list that we like featuring here on the site are the Best filmmaker and actor collaborations that have extended from one project to another, in which I like to call “Repeat Offenders”. Longtime working duos such as Greengrass and Damon (Green Zone) and Burton and Depp (Alice in Wonderland) didn’t figure on our list, neither did Oliver Stone reuniting with Michel Douglas for a second trip to Wall Street and worth noting: last year we mentioned the pairing of Jacques Audiard and Niels Arestrup which could have made it onto this year’s list, but didn’t. I’m already excited about a number of “Repeat Offenders” for next year, von Trier working with Gainsbourg on Melancholia, McQueen working with Fassbender on Shame, and this is just two pairings. Click below to begin the countdown for 2010’s Best “Repeat Offenders”.

10. Rachid Bouchareb and Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan

The French-Algerian Bouchareb employed the services of Roschdy Zem in 2001’s Little Senegal and then cast Zem along with Jamel Debbouze, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan in Indigènes – for which they won the Best Actor prize at Cannes in 2006. This mini battalion of Tunisian and Moroccan born or of descent actors got to explore not one, but two WWII realities. Outside the Law was also featured on the Croisette to mixed reviews, but we hope the filmmaker further uses the troupe of actors in both a historical or contempo setting.