France Nominates ‘Un prophète’ as Best Foreign Film
Director Jacques Audiard and actor Tahar Rahim
Having already won this year’s 62nd Cannes Grand Prix, director Jacques Audiard’s prison thriller Un prophète (A Prophet) has been selected as France’s entry in the foreign language film category for the 82nd Academy Awards, scheduled for the 7th of March 2010. Audiard, best known for the 2006 César Awards Best Picture De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté (The Beat that My Heart Skipped) about a man who must choose between a career in crime or classical music, relied upon ex-con technical advisers to help create an authentic ambiance for the present suspenser again focused upon a malleable young man confronting a hardened criminal world.
prophète , Un (A Prophet)
French - UGC Distribution - 26 August 2009
Prison true-to-life drama from writer-director Jacques Audiard and producer Martine Cassinelli; starring Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup and Leila Bekhti. Based on original screenplay by Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit.
Story Situation: metamorphosis
Maturity Rating: 17+
Satisfaction Rating: excellent
Plotline: Just 19 and sentenced to six years in prison, illiterate Arab-French Malik El Djebena arrives at his new concrete jungle cell seemingly frail and ill-prepared for a tough life among the dregs of society. He quickly falls in with the leader of the Corsican gang that dominates the inmate population. He is given a series of assignments to carry out, which toughen him up and earn him the trust of the gang’s leader. At the same time, he secretly develops his own network of supporters until, at the right moment, he emerges as the new kingpin.
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