Film Notes: Nicholas Jarecki on Arbitage
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 16th, 2012Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Film, Film Notes, New York, YouTube Videos
Nicholas Jarecki’s debut feature film Arbitrage released on Sept 14, 2012 and is available on iTunes.
Set in New York, Arbitrage takes you into the complex and opaque world of hedge fund managers. “We call the big hedge fund mangers ‘The Masters of Universe,’” says Jarecki in this interview. Arbitrage stars Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling and Tim Roth with Yorick Le Saux as the cinematographer
In this video interview Jarecki talks aabout a subject he is familiar with – business and how he came to write the script for Arbitrage. Both his parents were commodity traders and his father Prof. Jarecki was the head of well-known commodity company.
Jarecki started his own business as a teenager and has a bit of that “hacker” spirit in him he points out. “Business is such a big game,” he says and it is one aspect of that business he explores in the film. But, why did Jarecki wait so long to make his first Hollywood feature film? Tune in to find out why.