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A taut, solidly crafted drama.

The character of Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim), nineteen years old, French of Algerian descent was so realistically portrayed that it is really hard to understand it as a fictional character, as well as the character of the Corsican mobster Cesar Luciani (Niels Arestrup).

| Rating: 3.5/5 | Rating: 3.5/4 no crime sprees and no insatiable urge from the protagonist for power, but more an insurmountable penchant for survival and the rest falling into place Of course such screenplay and outstanding director could not be unnoticed: A Prophet won the Grand Prix at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, at the 53rd London Film Festival, it won the Best Film Award.

A morally complex and riveting study of the power struggle within the confines of prison. Art House & International, R (for strong violence, sexual content, nudity, language and drug material)

Changes to Just confirm how you got your ticket.Fandango He also learns to read, although that's more important for his self-confidence than for anything he learns. We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future.Theater box office or somewhere else A movie that stands with the best prison thrillers from any country; a film that vividly illustrates the connection between prison and the violent, radical form of Islam that keeps much of Europe on edge. |

Those capable of murdering live in another country.The movie, one of this year's foreign film Oscar nominees, follows the life of Malik, a young Frenchman of Arab descent, who enters prison as a naive outsider and is shaped into an evil, adult criminal. | He performs a task for Cesar on the outside, and it also allows him to better position himself.

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Malik was such a man once, but that ended in the bloody mess of the prison cell. |

TV Premiere Dates 2020

We look, we see, but we cannot say. It's not as if he becomes Eventually he becomes Cesar's most trusted confidant, perhaps because he is Arab, cannot band with the other Arabs, and has no other place to turn. It's clumsy, messy and brutal, and leaves the killer shaking.

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He learns from Cesar to reveal nothing. The film's portrayal of Muslim fundamentalism doesn't get a lot of traction and its aim isn't that clear to me.

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That's the key to this film. Whether he shakes with grief, relief or anger we cannot say. gripping with more a sense of realism to it than the majority of prison dramas. It dark, depressing, virile, and remarkably violent. It often must be that way when we witness violence. | Rating: 4/4

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