Kevin Macdonald, who previously directed
Touching the Void,
State of Play, and the
Life in a Day movies, was in the director’s chair for this one.
This looks like a harrowing movie that might work well as a double feature with Scott Z. Burns political thriller
The Report, and it looks like a real showcase for Foster (who hasn’t acted much over the past decade) and for Tahar Rahim, who broke out with a widely praised performance in the 2009 film
A Prophet. It sounds like Rahim, in particular, took this role
incredibly seriously. In a recent interview, he told us “the only way I found to make it authentic was to put myself in realistic conditions to experience what Mohamedou has been through. So yes, I asked the props to bring their real shackles. I wanted them to turn the cell as cold as possible. It wasn’t cold enough, so I asked them to spray me with water, so I could feel the cold, I got waterboarded and force-fed for real…I needed to go further and further
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