| Testimonials:"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." Simon Weaving, Screenwize"Rahim is an exciting, unpredictable presence, and Arestrup’s César has a stature that’s nearly Shakespearean."David Edelstein, New York Magazine "French master Jacques Audiard has challenged the thus-far mostly middling Cannes competition with a powerful prison drama that's an old-fashioned Bildungsroman in in-your-face, intensely realistic disguise."Peter Brunette, Hollywood Reporter | | Synopsis: 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,... 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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Country: | France | | Language: | French | | Genre: | Crime, Drama | | Cast: | Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Reda Kateb | | Directed by: | Jacques Audiard | | OFRB Rating: | 18A; Coarse Language, Violence, Substance Abuse. | | Runtime: | 155 minutes | | Show Dates: | Not Scheduled | | |
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