Niels Arestrup

Niels Arestrup

Nascimento : 1949-02-08, Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France

História

Niels Arestrup is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. His father was Danish and his mother was French. He has won two César Awards for Best Supporting Actor for De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté and Un prophète, both films where he was directed by Jacques Audiard.

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Niels Arestrup

Filmes

Divertimento
Sergiu Celibidache
95-96, year of high school. Only 17 years old, Zahia Ziouni becomes aware that her dream of becoming a conductor and her ambition to make symphonic music accessible to all and in all territories, will go through the creation of an orchestra unique in its diversitý and composition. Helped by her twin sister Fettouma, a cellist, and while she was about to conduct her very first concert, she created the Divertimento orchestra. The latter still exists and, at 44 years old, Zahia is now a conductor recognized worldwide.
Villa Caprice
Luc Germon
Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his clients. He is suspected of having acquired a magnificent property, Villa Caprice, under questionable conditions.
Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur
Self - Interviewee
In eight films, Jacques Audiard has renewed French cinema, without alienating either the critics or the success. It is only at the age of 42 that he starts directing, after having been an editor and a scriptwriter. In 1994, he directed his first film, "Regarde les hommes tomber", whose conflicting shooting was an ordeal for this misanthropic beginner. It was with "Sur mes lèvres", in 2001, that he forged his cinematographic language: contained lyricism, deliberate imperfection of images, ellipses plunging the audience into a maelstrom of sensations. With each of his films, Jacques Audiard intends to renew himself, at the cost of challenges and doubts always more vivid.
No Portal da Eternidade
Madman
1888. Após sofrer com o ostracismo e a rejeição de suas pinturas em galerias de arte, Vincent Van Gogh (Willem Dafoe) decide ouvir o conselho de seu mentor, Paul Gauguin (Oscar Isaac), e se mudar para Arles, no sul da França. Lá, lutando contra os avanços da loucura, da depressão e as pressões sociais, o pintor holandês adentra uma das fases mais conturbadas e prolíficas de sua curta, porém meteórica trajetória.
Nos Vemos no Paraíso
Marcel Péricourt
Novembro de 1918. Dias antes do Armistício, Édouard Péricourt salva a vida de Albert Maillard. Estes dois homens não tem nada em comum além da guerra. O tenente Padrelle, ao autorizar um ataque, destrói a vida de ambos enquanto os juntam sob a miséria. Nas ruínas da matança da Primeira Guerra Mundial, os dois tentam sobreviver e enquanto Pradelle está prestes a ganhar uma fortuna com as vítimas da guerra, Édouard e Albert bolam um plano monumental com as famílias dos mortos e com um herói nacional.
Reviver o Passado em Montauk
Walter
O escritor alemão Max Zorn chega a Nova Iorque, com a jovem e bela esposa, para promover a sua mais recente obra, inspirada numa história de amor ali vivida, muitos anos antes, com uma mulher chamada Rebeca. Assombrado por recordações, Max não consegue parar de pensar no que teria acontecido se não tivesse deixado para trás o que ainda considera o grande amor da sua vida. Quando descobre que ela continua a viver em Nova Iorque, resolve visitá-la. Embora, a princípio, pareça imperturbável, Rebeca acaba por o convidar para a acompanhar numa curta viagem a Montauk (Long Island), onde tenciona comprar a casa de praia de uns amigos.
À Beira Mar
Michel
Apresenta um escritor americano chamado Roland e sua esposa que chegam a uma tranquila e pitoresca estância balneária na França dos anos 70 em meio a uma crise de relacionamento. Com o passar do tempo e com a convivência de habitantes da vila e alguns jovens casais, eles começam a pautar e resolver algumas situações do dia a dia de suas próprias vidas.
So Long Africa
Jacques
Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, April 2011. Jacques and Safi arrive from Abidjan, from where they've been repatriated in an emergency. He's as tough as nails, after too much time in the African sun and enjoying an expatriate lifestyle while running a hotel. Safi, his fourteen-year-old daughter, is used to living with her mother and doesn't know what to think about her loud-mouthed and useless father who has suddenly taken her away with him. Moved to a hostel in Nice, they learn to get to know each other, to be able to look each in the eye, perhaps to love each other. But there's also Gloria, Safi's mother, left behind in the upheaval of Abidjan, and impossible to contact...
The Dune
Ruben
Through the course of several accidents and chance encounters, Hanoch and Ruben will meet and each of them will have to face a page of his personal history, a page that they both need to turn for good.
96 heures
Victor Kancel
Carré is the boss of the BRB (Brigade for the Repression of Banditry). 3 years earlier, he arrested a big mobster, Kancel. Today, thanks to an extraction, Kancel kidnaps the cop. He has 96 hours to elicit a single information: know who gave him.
Diplomacia
General Dietrich von Choltitz
Um drama histórico que retrata a relação entre Dietrich von Choltitz, o governador militar alemão de Paris ocupada, e o cônsul geral sueco Raoul Nordling.
O Palácio Francês
Claude Maupas
Arthur, um jovem recém-formado, começa a trabalhar para o ambicioso Ministro das Relações Exteriores. Sua função é elaborar os discursos do ministro, mas também terá que lidar com jogos políticos, a vaidade e as loucuras de seu chefe.
Perder a Razão
André Pinget
Como milhões de outros casais, Mounir e Murielle se apaixonam e têm filhos. Mas, ao contrário de outros casais, eles aceitam renunciar à sua autonomia e concordam em viver com o pai adotivo de Mounir.
Cavalo de Guerra
Grandfather
Albert vive com o pai e a mãe no campo e tem uma intensa ligação com seu cavalo. Depois de ser vendido para a cavalaria inglesa durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, Albert se alista para recuperar o animal e acaba conhecendo o major.
You Will Be My Son
Paul de Marseul
Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son Martin taking over the family business. Martin does not seem to have inherited the qualities that Paul esteems in a wine-maker: persistence, creative insight and technical prowess matched with passion for the job and the product, and Paul frequently reminds him of this, whether explicitly or in subtle gestures. When Philippe, the son of his manager, appears at the vineyard, Paul leaps at the chance to name him as his successor, neglecting the wishes of his own son...
Small World
Thomas
Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, Thomas's son, and Simone are getting married. Conrad's frequent memory loss and behavioural problems rapidly reveal a neurological disease (Alzheimer's is suggested by doctor Cohen when he examens Elvira) which leads Elvira, Thomas's stepmother, to install Conrad in a guesthouse on the property, with the help of a nurse. When Conrad looses more and more his landmarks in present and past, memories of his youth come back to surface. They intrigue Simone, since these memories do not entirely fit together with the official family history...
Em Busca de uma Nova Vida
Bartholomé
Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with Greg Kremer, a local photographer, a rush of blood provokes Paul into a fatal error.
A Chave de Sarah
Jules Dufaure
Paris, 1942. Enquanto a polícia francesa detém famílias judaicas, a garota Sarah tranca seu irmão mais novo em um armário e promete voltar para buscá-lo. Sessenta e sete anos depois, sua história se cruza com a de Julia Jarmond, uma jornalista americana que está investigando o cerco.
Behind Bars
A documentary that chronicles how ‘A Prophet’ came to exist.
O Caso Farewell
Vallier
Grigoriev, um ex-funcionário da KGB desiludido com o caminho que o comunismo tomou em seu país, começa a enviar informações altamente secretas sobre a rede de espionagem russa nos EUA a um empresário francês baseado em Moscou.
O Profeta
César Luciani
Mostra a dura trajetória de Malik, de dezenove anos, dentro do sistema carcerário. Ao chegar à prisão, ele é encurralado pelo líder da gangue dominante dos corsos e forçado a executar várias tarefas perigosas, inclusive tráfico de drogas e assassinatos brutais. Com o tempo, Malik ganha a confiança do líder da gangue e conquista posições privilegiadas dentro da prisão. Enquanto isso ele traça, secretamente, os seus próprios planos.
Le temps des cerises
Author
Le Temps des cerises is a sentimental comedy, full of charm, on the life of two beings whom everything opposes, but which chance brings together. He is a painter and out of inspiration. She is young, pretty, full of life, not very sure of herself. They have nothing in common except their humor, their charm, their need to create and their passion for painting. They will live a few days together and both will emerge transformed from this parenthesis.
O Escafandro e a Borboleta
Roussin
Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) tem 43 anos, é editor da revista Elle e um apaixonado pela vida. Mas, subitamente, tem um derrame cerebral. Vinte dias depois, ele acorda. Ainda está lúcido, mas sofre de uma rara paralisia: o único movimento que lhe resta no corpo é o do olho esquerdo. Bauby se recusa a aceitar seu destino. Aprende a se comunicar piscando letras do alfabeto, e forma palavras, frases e até parágrafos. Cria um mundo próprio, contando com aquilo que não se paralisou: sua imaginação e sua memória.
The Candidate
Director
The Candidate
Georges
Fragments of Antonin
le professeur Lantier
A psychiatrist who probes the mind of traumatized soldiers attempts to unlock the secret that drove a gentle but deeply-disturbed World War I veteran to the edge of insanity.
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Robert Seyr
Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who makes his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, deals. But a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist. He auditions with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who cannot speak French - music is their only exchange. But pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle.
Parlez-moi d'amour
Richard
A Private Affair
Le père de Rachel
Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing for six months. After interviewing Rachel's family, friends and classmates, Francois is attacked and injured by an anonymous assailant and becomes reluctant to continue his search. But when Rachel's body is found, Francois is drawn deeper into the investigation as he discovers the dead girl's secret life.
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
Jascha Steg
Joseph and Olga Stegudith, who are elderly Parisians of Viennese Jewish extraction, come to luxurious Evian with Olga's brother Michel Mazelsky to hear their son, virtuoso cellist Jascha, perform. Jascha is lovesick over violinist Anna Ghirardi, with whom he had a brief affair a year ago, although she's happily married to naturalist Primo.
Rewind
Fabrice Rivail
Les Derniers Jours de la victime
Mendizábal
Mendizábal, a reputed hitman, is commissioned to eliminate Rodolfo Kulpe, a small-time criminal.
Délit mineur
Claude
A teenager named Guillaume admits to being guilty of his father's murder in order to protect his dear mother.
Albert Savarus
Albert Savarus
Adaptation of the Balzac story as told by Rosalie, a young girl in love with the idea of her extraordinary neighbor, Albert Savarus, and the lengths she goes to ensure their marriage, even after she learns he is in deeply in love to another woman.
La femme abandonnée
Oskar de Wilno
Tired of Parisian life, Louis de Nueil settles in a provincial village to rest from his hectic life. But he quickly gets bored. He then meets Fanny de Lussange, as beautiful as she is mysterious. The young man decides to court Fanny.
Meeting Venus
Zoltan Szanto
Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Amidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love.
Doux amer
A married woman, Anne Lambert has a child with her lover. But her lover becomes afraid and refuses to recognize the baby. Very invested in her career, Anne, an architect, decides to raise her child alone.
La ruelle au clair de lune
Professeur Hans Klemm
Ville étrangère
An Austrian diplomat assigned to Paris wakes up after having a strange nightmare and finds himself emotionally distanced from his world. He feels absolutely nothing as he attends to his daily routine. He gradually begins to behave in an increasingly strange manner. The story is based on Moment of True Feeling, a novel by Peter Handke.
Charlie Dingo
William
Charlie (Guy Marchand) returns home after being declared legally dead to reclaim his wife Georgia (Caroline Cellier) and cash in on a lucrative life insurance policy in this shadowy drama. He finds Georgia is married to the crooked cop William (Niels Arestrup), who has his eye on the insurance money. Antihero Charlie and the villainous police inspector head towards an inevitable confrontation, while Georgia is caught in the middle.
Lorfou
Angelo
La Rumba
Detaix
Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charleston, Foxtrot and Boston. Among beautiful women, local pimps and Mussolini's spies brush each other on the dance floor, and in the streets. A police inspector is charged with a difficult task, to clean-up the city streets - just when bodies start falling around, as the Mafia and the spies tend each other deadly traps.
Among Wolves
Mike
An American general with highly confidential defence information has been kidnapped by terrorists and is being held in a cliff-top fortress in the Mediterranean.
Diesel
Nelson
A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to the fold or kill her, which forces her to seek help from Liberty, an anti-Consortium group.
Sincerely Charlotte
Mathieu
In a most unusual, near menage a trois, Charlotte is a terrified young singer who is forced to hide out at the home of her ex-boyfriend -- her current male companion has been murdered in his apartment, and she fears the worst. The trouble is that Mathieu, her ex, is happily living with his new love Christine.
The Future Is Woman
Gordon
In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for awhile, the relationship between the three is strange, at the very least.
One Man's War
Narrator
Via the New York Times: "...a dialogue between found objects... the remarkably calm, somewhat banal wartime journals of Ernst Junger, a German writer and army officer living in occupied Paris in World War II, and newsreel footage of Paris as it really was."
Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan
Rastignac
La Cerisaie
Lopakhine
Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff
Stan Pilgrim
Seuls
Jean
Jean (Niels Arestrup), the lead character in this psychological journey is torn by a search for his lost childhood, the overwhelming need to love a woman of his dreams (someone he has invented), and a struggle with his latent bisexuality. Jean finds some photos inside an automatic photo station that look like his mother who died soon after he was born. He starts to fantasize about the woman, giving her a name and identity and waiting for her to appear. During this time, he meets Carole (Christine Boisson) and has an affair with her, all the while pretending he has this other relationship with the woman in the photo. Significantly, the couple who introduce him to Carole is childless, and they eventually split up - perhaps a comment on the importance of childhood to the adult world. In the end, Carole discovers that Jean's "other woman" has no real existence, causing a crisis that finds a symbolic expression as the last scenes close on the story.
Bruges la Morte
Hugues Viane
Memoirs of a French Whore
André
Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoration, Mary decides to leave her parents and her clerk job to live with the man she considers as the love of her life. But Gerard is a pimp, who soon forces her into prostitution. From within homes to out on the streets, the young woman gradually discovers a world of decay and violence.
The Song of Roland
Le commerçant / Oton
Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a key figure in halting the advance of the Arabs into France. In this story, the 10th-century legend is staged by a group of 12th-century pilgrims using the 11th-century poem. Their acting is interrupted by a violent peasant uprising, which kills many of the pilgrims. However, one of the survivors, is converted to the peasant cause and later speaks out in favor of more just treatment for the downtrodden.
Tauwetter
Jean-Luc
The Sorceror's Apprentice
Danton
A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than actually participate in one
Plus ça va, moins ça va
Vincent
Eu, Tu, Ele, Ela
Truck-driver
A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.
Le grand soir
Léon
In Lausanne, Léon is involved by accident with a small Leninist group and gets to know Léa, a dedicated activist and the group leader's mistress. The police keep a close watch on them and trouble is bound to follow.
Se Tivesse Que Refazer Tudo
Henri Lanot
Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunited with the boy, Simon, who has remained in an orphanage the entire time. She is accompanied by toothsome prison buddy Sarah, and gradually these people whose lives have been frozen in time "thaw" and get on with the business of living.
Tomorrow's Children
Philippe
The hero of this bleak science-fiction story is a married man who, along with his wife, survives the mysterious destruction of the world. After his wife dies, he makes plans to seek out whatever remnants of civilization exist. However, the arrival of a group of children and their older mentor changes his plans.
Lumière
Nano
Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. This is the prologue for what happened a year ago in Paris with a man Sarah had long considered a platonic friend. She had just finished a film, had also finished her relationship with the director and was about to receive an award…
Stavisky ou o Império de Alexandre
Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski
Irresistible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during the early 30s. But nothing lasts forever and when his great scam involving hundreds millions of francs gets exposed result is an unprecedented scandal that almost caused a civil war.
Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men
Yves
Pierre and Yves, two homosexuals, live a cozy love in a small Breton village until the arrival of Anne, the ex-girlfriend of Pierre, who will try to separate them.
Tiens ferme ta couronne