| [filmlover-l] Movie this week: Un
prophète (A Prophet) |
Sunday, October 31, 2010
11:35:55 PM |
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tbco@mtu.edu |
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filmlover-l@mtu.edu |
Hello everyone,
We are back this week. We are showing a French movie, "Un
prophète(A Prophet)" directed by Jacques Audiard . (more details
below).
Please feel free to pass the message around and invite
your friends. Hope you can join us.
Regards,
Tom Co
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Title: Un prophète (A Prophet)
Date and Time: November 3, Wednesday, 6:30-9:00pm
Place: 308 Cooper Ave, Hancock
Director: Jacques Audiard
Partial List of Actors:
Tahar Rahim
Niels Arestrup
Adel Bencherif
Hichem Yacoubi
Reda Kateb
Jean-Philippe Ricci
US Rating: R
Language: French, Arabic, Corsican (with English subtitles)
Length: 155 mins
Media: DVD, color
Summary: ( by Huggo via www.imdb.com )
"Nineteen year-old Franco-Arab Malik
El Djebena is just starting his six
year prison sentence in Brécourt...
Beyond the division of Corsicans and
Muslims in the prison (the Corsicans
who with their guard connections rule
what happens in the prison), he has no
known friends or enemies inside... Due
to logistics, the head of Corsican
inmates, a sadistic mafioso named César
Luciani, co-opts Malik as part of the
Corsicans' activities...The innocent Malik
has no idea what to do but cooperate...
But as time goes on, Malik works to save
himself while in prison, while setting up
his life post prison on his own terms."
My Comments:
Impressive and gritty. Although the slow
descent into crime while in prison has
been filmed before, this movie does it
very well and believably. The acting is
very good.
It won the grand jury prize at Cannes, and
was nominated for the Oscars for best foreign
film. The movie is rated R and 2 and 1/2 hours
long.
