VANITYRIR Arbitrage Director Nicholas Jarecki on Bernie Madoff, Wall Street's "Cocaine Eyes," and the Film's V .F . Connection By: Julie Miller January 25, 2012 The Sundance Film Festival has a reputation for slow-paced independent dramas, which is why when the rare, well-executed thriller pops up on the Park City premiere schedule, it generates a lot of buzz. This year, festival-goers were lucky enough to enjoy one such picture: the tense tale of a corrupt hedge-fund manager's undoing, Arbitrage, from first-time feature director Nicholas Jarecki. Sure, we may be slightly biased—the film was inspired in part by the 2010 anthology The Great Hangover 21 Tales of the New Recession from the Pages of Vanity Fair, and it features a cameo by V.F.'s editor, Graydon Carter—but you needn't look further than early reviews to see that it has been impartially well received. Acquired at Sundance by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions, the film stars Richard Gere as a morally bankrupt billionaire, Susan Sarandon as his wife, and Brit Marling as his daughter and chief investment officer. This week, we spoke to EFTA00591211