Tahar Rahim Articles

Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (Roger Arpajou / Sony Pictures Classics) The Cesar winners will be announced on Feb. 27. MEILLEUR FILM / BEST FILM A L’ORIGINE / IN THE BEGINNING, Edouard Weil and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam; directed by Xavier Giannoli LE CONCERT / THE CONCERT, Alain Attal; directed by Radu Mihaileanu LES HERBES FOLLES / WILD GRASS, Jean-Louis Livi; directed by Alain Resnais LA [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q8T6KSmlCs[/youtube] Kristen Stewart, following clips showing her with the likes of Jodie Foster and, inevitably, Robert Pattinson, accepted her Orange Rising Star Award at the BAFTA ceremony held this evening at London’s Royal Opera House. Stewart’s competition was European Film Award winner Tahar Rahim (the star of Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet, winner of the Best Foreign Language Film BAFTA Award), Jesse Eisenberg, Nicholas Hoult, and [...]

Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: New Moon Kristen Stewart’s Orange Rising Star Award victory would only surprise someone who has been living in some parallel universe where the Twilight Saga franchise movies haven’t played at local movie houses. Anyone could vote for the Orange Rising Star Award. I voted for Tahar Rahim, knowing full well he had no chance. But I wanted to make [...]

Avatar may be the king of the box office, but it surely wasn’t king of anything at the London Film Critics’ Circle Awards held this evening in, where else, London. The London Critics’ best film of 2009? Jacques Audiard’s prison drama A Prophet, the first French-made production to win the Circle’s top award in its 30-year history. Starring European Film Award winner Tahar Rahim (above), [...]