A Prophet
- 2009
- France/Italy
- 150 min
- 18
- Directed by: Jacques Audiard
- Written by: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri, Nicolas Peufaillit
- Cast: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif
- Website: www.un-prophete-lefilm.com
Naïve youth Malik (Rahim) enters prison with a view to keeping his head down, but murderous circumstance see him aligned to the Corsican mafia who run the prison. As prison population demographics begin to shift, the cunning Malik uses all his resources to elevate his financial and hierarchical status. Plotted and executed with a slow burn complexity and rare grace, this is a wonderfully mature piece of filmmaking.
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A Prophet - Jacques Audiard interview
20 Jan 2010
Unlike his contemporaries – Lars von Trier, Pedro Almodovar and Michael Haneke, the name of French director Jacques Audiard carries little arthouse weight for British fans of European cinema. This situation looks likely to change however with the…
A Prophet - Tahar Rahim interview
20 Jan 2010
Tahar Rahim looks like a rabbit caught in the headlights. We are on a hotel roof overlooking the sea at Cannes and Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet has just had its world premiere. In 150 exhilarating minutes, the 28 year-old has gone from unknown to the…
A Prophet (Un Prophète)
15 Jan 2010
(18) 155min Taking its lead from Muhammad’s mantra that ‘This world is a prison for the faithful, but a paradise for unbelievers’ Jacques Audiard’s new thriller is a disquieting portrait of ambition and progression uncontained by the cell…
French Film Festival
4 Nov 2009
Undoubtedly the biggest and strongest line up for a while, this year’s FFF UK selection is a feast of ancient and modern for Francophiles and cineastes alike. New film highlights include Anne Coco Before Chanel Fontaine’s comedy thriller The Girl from…
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