Nicolas Cazalé Movies
- 2002
Gael Morel's drama Les Chemin de l'Oued (Under Another Sky) is about life in Algeria. When Sami (Nicolas Cazale) causes the death of a police officer, his family sends him to help his grandfather (Kheireddine Defdaf) work his farm. Sami is a fish out of water, but soon connects with two very different cousins. Mohammed Majd portrays a drug-dealing hedonist, while Amira Casar plays a widow whose guilt about her dead husband's terrorist activities causes her to do charity work. She touches Sami, but that may not be enough to help everyone out of their difficult lives. Under Another Sky was screened at the Vancouver Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nicolas Cazalé, Amira Casar, (more)
Teen heartthrob, Chevignon model, and action star Nicholas Cazalé headlines the riveting straight-to-video drama L'Amour Dangereux. Cazalé plays the ultimate baddie - a young rebel who not only knocks off a delivery truck with a bunch of thugs, but knocks a policeman unconscious by accident. Jumping behind the wheel of his sixteen-year-old girlfriend's (Jennifer Decker) father's station wagon, Cazalé and his paramour flee to the ocean shore, with the rollers on their tails - and make an ever-so-narrow attempt to evade capture. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nicolas Cazalé
A father/son road trip highlights the deep generational and cultural gaps between a modern young Arab preparing for his college entrance exams in France and his devoutly religious father who has demanded that his son drive him to Mecca in an intensely emotional drama from director Ismaël Ferroukhi. Réda (Nicolas Cazale) is determined to better himself by pursuing a higher education. When Réda's headstrong father arrives demanding that his son drive him to Mecca for a religious pilgrimage, the troubled young man's resentment towards grows more powerful than ever as a result of the elder's demand for respect for both himself and his journey. Now, as the reluctant pair wind their way from France to Saudi Arabia, the bond shared between them will be tested and their lives forever changed. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nicolas Cazalé, Mohammed Majd, (more)
Three French-Algerian brothers deal with their grief following the death of their mother in their own different ways in this drama. Marc (Nicolas Cazale) is a angry and confused young man obsessed with drugs, working out, and capoeira, a Brazilian martial arts discipline. The only friendship that makes Marc feel secure is his relationship with his dog, and when Marc falls behind in his payments to his drug connection Montana (Nicolas Paz), the dealer takes revenge in an especially painful manner. Christophe (Stephane Rideau), Marc's older brother, has just completed a stay in prison and is trying to put his life back together through hard work and capoeira while urging Marc to stay on the straight and narrow. However, Christophe is unable to convince his father (Bruno Lochet) to forgive him for falling to the wrong side of the law while his mother was dying. And Olivier (Thomas Dumerchez), the youngest of the three siblings, feels lost amidst the agony and mourning of his household until he becomes involved with Marc's friend Hicham (Salim Kechiouche), who teaches him the finer points of capoeira and allows him to accept his homosexual nature. Le Clan was released in the United States as Three Dancing Slaves, a reference to the dance-oriented art of capoeira. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nicolas Cazalé, Stephane Rideau, (more)
- 2005
Director Coline Serreau's warmhearted comedy Saint Jacques. . .La Mecque concerns a trio of estranged siblings who must complete a road trip together in order to collect an inheritance after their mother dies. The ever-at-the-end-of his-tether businessman Pierre (Artus de Penguern), mousy teacher Clara (Muriel Robin), and drunken reprobate Caludr (Jean-Pierre Darroussin), must travel together in order to each warn the millions their mother left them or else it all goes to charity. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Muriel Robin, Artus de Penguern, (more)
- 2006
The bleakest and most claustrophobic nightmare of many a European actualizes in director Régis Wargnier's apocalyptic thriller Pars vite et reviens tard (AKA Have Mercy on Us All). Not long after his abandonment by his girlfriend, French police captain Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is confronted by a string of bizarre signs strewn across Paris - strange talismans and omens that appear inexplicably on Parisian doors, whispered words that forebode an unspeakable onslaught of doom. All suggest someone's crude warning, and a riddle that Adamsberg must solve to stave off a coming tragedy - but the meaning eludes the captain until calamity hits: the Plague returns, wiping out scores of victims in its wake. And more problematically, it appears that some malevolent soul is single-handedly controlling the outbreak, willing it wherever he or she chooses. Lucas Belvaux, Marie Gillain, Michel Serrault and Mathias Mlekuz co-star; Wargnier co-authored the script with Harriet Marin, Lawrence Shore, Julien Rappeneau and Ariane Fert, adapted from the novel by Fred Vargas. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- José Garcia, Lucas Belvaux, (more)
Quand Tu Descendras du Ciel director Eric Guirado follows up his feature filmmaking debut with this drama about a grocer's son who returns to the village where he was born in order to take over his father's business. Ten years ago, Antione (Nicolas Cazalé) left his family behind and moved to the big city. Now, after discovering that his father (Daniel Duval) has suffered a heart attack and that the family grocery store will soon be forced to shut down, Antoine heads back to the French mountain town at the behest of his brother François (Stéphan Guérin-Tillié). It seems that few folks save for his mother (Jeanne Goupil) are happy to see Antoine return, though the meandering 30-year-old has brought city friend Claire (Clotilde Hesme) along to keep him company during his stay in the country. Though it remains to be seen whether Antoine and Claire will ever become anything more than friends, the free-spirited sprite is more than happy to help out when it comes to making the rounds with the mobile store that services the local villages. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme, (more)
- 2007
A naïve young artist living with her father in an Ibiza cave sets out to explore life on her own terms in Sex and Lucia director Julio Medem's sensual tale of personal transformation. Ana (Manuela Vellés) is a free-spirited nymph who has only known the natural world. An ethereal, nubile woman who supports herself and her father by selling her colorful paintings at various arts and craft fairs across her scenic island, Ana is eventually discovered by a French woman named Justine (Charlotte Rampling) and lured away to art school in Madrid. Once there, Ana is confronted with a life she has never even imagined -- a life that reveals both profound love and near-unbearable pain. As she takes her first step toward womanhood, Ana gradually discovers that life is more than a geographical and linear journey; it is also temporal and cyclical as evidenced by the many lifetimes she has lived before her current existence. Eventually, in a transcendental bid to explore her many past lives, Ana turns to hypnosis. It is this journey that reveals to Ana the source of her chaos -- the hideous commonality that has followed her from her very first journey. Instilled with the wisdom of her many past experiences, Ana is propelled ever further back in time and across the continents, all the while knowing that one day the time will come for her to use the power to create life, and employ her vast knowledge for the good of all humankind. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Manuela Vellés, Charlotte Rampling, (more)
- 2009
A seasoned safecracker is torn between pulling one final, highly lucrative job and abandoning his criminal career in favor of raising his young son. Repeatedly tempted by his grandfather to continue in the felonious family business, 35 year old career criminal Sam instead decides to do everything in his power to finally become a Mensch (a decent man). ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nicolas Cazalé, Sami Frey, (more)
