Arthur Rambo
Arthur Rambo is a 2021 French drama film directed by Laurent Cantet. The film stars Rabah Nait Oufella as Karim D., freely inspired by the story of Mehdi Meklat. The cast also includes Antoine Reinartz, Sofian Khammes, Anaël Snoek and Aleksandra Yermak. The film entered production in fall 2019. It premiered at the 2021 [Toronto International Film Festival] in the Platform Prize program. It had its European premiere in the Golden Shell competition at the 69th [San Sebastián International Film Festival]. The film was Cantet's final feature film as a director before his death in April 2024.
Plot
Karim D. is a young writer riding success with the new novel The Landing. A rare Arab rising star in Paris' intellectual hothouse, his social life shunts between glittering literary cocktails and hanging with his old friends from the banlieues. But Karim's teen online identity under the alias Arthur Rambo is revealed, a nickname in which a poet and a rejected veteran coexist, and the two worlds collide. Where Karim is now a nuanced author, "Arthur Rambo" was profane and blindly provocative, tweeting out hate-fuelled homophobic and anti-Semitic messages to get a rise out of bourgeois France.Cast
- Rabah Nait Oufella as Karim D.
- Antoine Reinartz as Nicolas
- Sofian Khammes as Rachid
- Anaël Snoek as Clio Balan