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- A Prophet is an early contender for 2010’s best film. It successfully marries engaging entertainment with art-house sensibilities in a way that few films do of late, maintaining intelligent complexity and thematic richness, while making its 155 minutes undulate and fly without sagging.
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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.
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- Jacques Audiard
A Prophet is not a fabulous film, but it is well worth seeing. Although it is 2 hours 29 minutes long and its story is not surprising, it is always riveting. Full Review | Jan 13, 2018
Featuring an impressive star turn by newcomer Tahar Rahim, A Prophet is a French gangster film filled with arresting, immediate details. Read Critics Reviews
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Mar 3, 2010 · “A Prophet” becomes a young man’s bleak, remorseless coming of age story. 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.
A Prophet is an outstanding movie, an example of the good cinema still made nowadays, amidst all the mediocrity. It's intelligent, brutal, funny, exciting and sad. In sum, it's a complete and perfect cinematic experience.
Nominated for an Oscar, winner of a BAFTA, A Prophet tells the story of young Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rehim), jailed for six years, and the amount of growing up he has to do in that time. With an Arabic name, but French allegiance, Malik is alone once inside.
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.
