Who is Arthur Harari, Justin Trier’s companion, on stage next to him to accept the Oscar for Best Screenplay?

Justin Trier never goes alone on stage. Although the camera always zooms in on his diaphanous face, the director throws himself into the arms of a rather reserved man at each canonization. He is Arthur Harari, the father of her two daughters, with whom she wrote the script for the filmAnatomy of a Fall, was released last August and won numerous awards worldwide. After winning 5 Césars, 3 Golden Globes and a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the work has just won Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards, which took place this Sunday, March 10, in the United States. “The glamor of tonight contrasts with the origins of this film, which was written when we were at home, under arrest, locked up with our children… There was no separation between the writing and the layers,” declared the filmmaker, whose “we” is always transforms under the adoring and amused gaze of ‘I’, his partner who has shared his life for over fifteen years.

Their love story, however, is far from obvious. The two first met in 2007 at the Brive Festival, a hotbed of talent but little respect for each other. “His film posed a problem for me. It was just a window,” confided Arthur Harari in August 2023 columns. Vanity Fairabout a feature film In place that his future partner presented that year. Bad start. A year later, in 2008, the latter put the criticism aside and invited the director to his 30th birthday party. The magic finally works in the party scent. In 2010, Justin Treet became pregnant with their first daughter, and in 2019, with their second. Today they are raising them in their duplex in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. Also where they spent years building their respective careers before writing the script togetherAnatomy of a Fall2020

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Because Arthur Harari owes his success not only to the success of his partner and the victory of their feature film. The son of architects who grew up in Saint-Saint-Denis, he is the grandson of acclaimed theater director and former actor Clément Harary. As a child, he was immersed in a bohemian environment and artreports Set free , and quickly created a rich cultural repertoire. A great reader of Kafka, he is also a fan of Bob Dylan and at the age of 9 became passionate about the films of American Humphrey Bogart discovered at a Warner Studios retrospective. Brothers His two brothers are also immersed in the same universe. Tom became a cameraman. Lucas is a comic book illustrator.

After studying film at the University of Saint-Denis, Arthur Harari cut his teeth in 2007 with his first short film. Hand to face. It is this film that he presents to Justin Triet during the Brive Festival. However, the consecration took place only later, in 2015 Black diamond, his first feature film, won a César for Best First Film. He also offers his lead role to Niels Schneider, Virginia Ephyra’s companion, who plays a young diamond merchant from Antwerp. From there, the accolades poured in for Harari, who loved and cherished her place behind the camera. In 2021, he received the Louis Deluc Award Onoda, 10,000 Nights in the Jungle, revisiting a Japanese officer’s thirty years in the jungle. At the same time, he cooperates here and there with his lifelong friend. Perhaps, moreover, he will give him a taste for acting, forcing him to play his first scenes in the cinema. In the first Battle of Solferino (2008), then c Victoria (2016) and Sybil (2019).

Thus, Arthur Harari gained confidence as a director, then as an actor, before joining, while writing;Anatomy of a Fallin the casting of the film The Goldman Trial By Cedric Khan. He plays George Kijman, a lawyer who defends the accused brother of singer Jean-Jacques Goldman, played by Arie Warthalter. At the César ceremony last February, Justin Trier’s companion was nominated for the best supporting actor for the first time in his career. A prize that Swan Arlo will ultimately win for Anatomy of a Fallagain leaving Arthur Harari’s defeat with a certain taste of victory.