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- French crime drama A Prophet (Un Prophète) has been positioned by critics and festival panel members alike as being one of 2010’s films to watch. Besides being France’s selection for the Academy Awards, it garnered great praise from both Cannes and London film festivals, winning the Grand Prize at the former, and the Best Film award at the latter.
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Mar 6, 2010 · Jacques Audiard’s Un prophète (A Prophet) is one of the most strikingly original French movies of recent release and in a country that regularly puts out superb films, that’s saying a lot. It’s also unusual in that its antecedents aren’t the typical art house fare that most current French filmmakers pay homage to and excel at.
Jun 27, 2024 · Un Prophète (A Prophet), is a French crime-drama film, from 2009, directed by Jacques Audiard. It tells the story of Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim), a young French-Arab, who is sentenced to six years in prison for attacking police officers. The film follows Malik’s journey as he navigates the brutal and complex world of prison life.
A Prophet (French: Un prophète) is a 2009 French prison crime film directed by Jacques Audiard with a screenplay by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit, from a story by Dafri.
A Prophet (Un prophète) (2009), directed by Jacques Audiard, delves into identity, power, and survival themes within a French prison. The film follows Malik El Djebena, a young Franco-Arab man...
Mar 3, 2010 · The best performance in the film is by Arestrup as Cesar. You may remember him from Audiard’s “The Beat That My Heart Skipped” (2005), where he played a seedy but confident father who psychically overshadows his son. That one was very loosely inspired by James Toback’s “Fingers,” with Harvey Keitel as the vulnerable son of a gangster.
One of the biggest surprises of 2009, Jacques Audiard's 'Un Prophète' is the best French film in a decade, garnering strong critical and word-of-mouth support and winning the Grand Prix in Cannes (which for years now means that it's the actual festival winner).
A Prophet, or Un Prophete, is an unconventional French film that combines prison drama with the Goodfellas-styled narrative of the rise to criminal power. Shot by the inimitable French director Jacques Audiard, A Prophet is a future classic from the get-go, taking age-old cliches and turning them on their heads.
