| Release Date | Feb 12, 2010 |
| Rating | Not Rated |
| Summary | At age 18, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is just beginning a six-year prison sentence in this drama from THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED director Jacques Audiard. Though he cannot read or write, Malik soon figures out the politics of the prison system, giving him a prime spot in the power struggle between two battling groups of prisoners. THE PROPHET reunites Audiard with two of his stars from THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED, Niels Arestrup and Gilles Cohen, as well as that film’s director of photography, Stéphane Fontaine, and its composer, Alexandre Desplat. |
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 Destined to be one of the finest crime films of all time. In a year with little top-class French cinema to be found, this is exhilarating, intelligent, gritty and ruthlessly surprising.
Feb 08, 2010
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 Some of the story-telling is muddled, and no attempt is made to imbue the proceedings with any kind of morality. We are presumably meant to admire the leading man's opportunism, resilience and ability to cast off and reassume his Muslim identity at will.
Jan 22, 2010
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The story of a poor, illiterate youngster of mixed blood whose parents had abandoned him and who has nothing, until he goes to prison for adults and slowly begins to make the most of his situation
Feb 06, 2010
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A compelling piece of naturalistic filmmaking, claustrophobic and thought-provoking.
Feb 26, 2010
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Jacques Audiard's gritty film about prison life, corruption, discrimination, survival skills and ambition is tense, violent and full of surprises
Feb 06, 2010
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Thanks to Audiard's instinct for casting and his willingness to get inside the head of his protagonist, the movie maintains a raw power.
Feb 03, 2010
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A modern French crime epic where the smudges and crossings out do not diminish the passages of great dreamlike power.
Jan 22, 2010
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| Genres | Foreign Films, Crime, Drama |
| Stars | Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Reda Kateb, Hichem Yacoubi, Gilles Cohen, Pierre Leccia, Antoine Basler, Foued Nassah, Jean-Emmanuel Pagni, Jean-Philippe Ricci |
| Director | Jacques Audiard |
| Writers | Jacques Audiard, Abdel Raouf Dafri, Nicolas Peufaillit, Thomas Bidegain |
| Studio | Sony Pictures Classics |
| Review Count | 41 |
| Positive | 39 |
| Negative | 2 |
| Recent | 17 |
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