Tahar Rahim

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A Prophet's Tahar Rahim stars in worthy but flawed WWII espionage drama

Loosely based on real events, this espionage drama set during World War II focuses on the largely overlooked cooperation between Arabic immigrants and the French Resistance. Tahar Rahim (who shot to fame in A Prophet) plays a North African worker named…

Black Gold

Cliched, desert-set action adventure starring Mark Strong, Antonio Banderas and Tahar Rahim

(12A) 130min The financial muscle of the Middle East has had a major impact on many spheres in recent years. Now that money is being directed towards movies. Bankrolled by the Doha Film Institute this action-adventure is set at the turn of the 20th…

A Prophet - Jacques Audiard interview

Unlike his contemporaries – Lars von Trier, Pedro Almodovar and Michael Haneke, the name of French director Jacques Audiard carries little arthouse weight for British fans of European cinema. This situation looks likely to change however with the…

A Prophet - Tahar Rahim interview

Tahar Rahim looks like a rabbit caught in the headlights. We are on a hotel roof overlooking the sea at Cannes and Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet has just had its world premiere. In 150 exhilarating minutes, the 28 year-old has gone from unknown to the…

A Prophet (Un Prophète)

(18) 155min Taking its lead from Muhammad’s mantra that ‘This world is a prison for the faithful, but a paradise for unbelievers’ Jacques Audiard’s new thriller is a disquieting portrait of ambition and progression uncontained by the cell…