Tahar Rahim’s career continues to go from strength to strength after “A Prophet” with the Gallic thesp now reportedly set to star in Emir Kusturica’s Palestinian comedy, “Cool Water.”
The film will see Rahim play one of two brothers who try to smuggle the body of their recently deceased father from Jerusalem to Ramallah while trying to avoid Israeli police and Russian mobsters.
Shooting on the Gabrial Bornstein-scripted pic will begin this September slotting in comfortably between Rahim’s work on Lou Ye’s “Bitch” and Ismaël Ferroukhi’s Si Kaddour Benghabrit biopic and Kusturica’s reunion with Johnny Depp on their Pancho Villa biopic, “Wild Roses, Tender Roses,” which shoots next year. Kusturica will also evidently star in Olivier Horlait’s “Nicostratos,” where he’ll play a Greek priest whose struggling relationship with his 14 year old son leads the boy to adopt a pelican for solace and escapism.
Meanwhile, Kusturica’s long unavailable (at least in R1) film “Arizona Dream” starring Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Vincent Gallo, Faye Dunaway and Lili Taylor (seriously, that cast alone should make you pick this one up) is finally being released via the Warner Archive. The film is a favorite among Playlisters, and is one of the most endearing yet willfully absurd films you’re ever likely to see. Track this one down and check out one of our favorite scenes below:
