Prophet, A (Un Prophete)
Prophet, A (Un Prophete)
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To be blunt, compress the entire prison series, Oz, into a mean, 150-minute art film, and you have A Prophet. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, this fifth feature from Jacques Audiard (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) tells the pulpy tale of an uneducated 19-year-old French Arab (Tahar Rahim) who just barely survives his introduction into the caste system at an especially brutal prison. "Luckily," he is taken under the evil wing of a Corsican lord (Niels Arestrup) before the film descends into graphic power struggles within the prison walls and with criminals hustling in the free world. Audiard claimed he was making the "anti-Scarface." If by that, he meant a naive young man climbs to the top of the crime world on a pile of corpses, only grounded in poetic realism and not grandiosity: sentence served! In French, Arabic and Corsu with English subtitles.

Jacques Audiard---France---2009---155 mins.

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   | Michael#69

This film has a tight, tense structure that illustrates the limited options of a young convict's life in prison. The touches of magical realism were unexpected (very subtle, unobtrusive, yet key to the protagonist's psychology), as was the beauty of the film (much like the beauty of Hunger admist the desperate political struggle). My first Audiard film, I will seek out his other ones!

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