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JACQUES AUDIARD'S MASTERPIECE,A PROPHET (UN PROPHETE)

A Prophet movie is a 2009 French crime film directed by Jacques Audiard. The film won the Grand Prix at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.

Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim), nineteen years old, French of North African descent, is sentenced to six years in prison for attacking police officers. Alone and illiterate upon his arrival at the racially divided prison, he falls under the sway of a Corsican mafia group, led by Cesar Luciani (Niels Arestrup), who enforces a brutal rule.

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CONTENTS OF THIS LENS

A PROPHET (UN PROPHETE) REVIEW
A PROPHET (UN PROPHETE) : AWARDS AND HONORS
A PROPHET : ARTS AND FAITH
RATE A PROPHET?
WATCH A PROPHET ONLINE
THE DIRECTOR : JACQUES AUDIARD
JACQUES AUDIARD : SELECT FILMOGRAPHY
JACQUES AUDIARD BY VOTES
"PROPHET @ CANNES"
CHECK OUT AMAZON FOR JACQUES AUDIARD'S WORK!
WHICH ONE IS YOUR BEST FRENCH FILM?
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A PROPHET (UN PROPHETE) REVIEW

Director: Jacques Audiard, Cast: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup

In his labyrinthine portrait of a convict turned kingpin, Jacques Audiard (A Self Made Hero) combines the grittiness of HBO's Oz with the shifting loyalties of a Leone western. After assaulting a cop, Malik (riveting newcomer Tahar Rahim) earns a six-year prison bid. Though illiterate, the 19-year-old speaks French and Arabic.

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Instead of congregating with the Muslim inmates, he keeps to himself, providing a perfect target for Mob boss C�sar (Niels Arestrup of Audiard's The Beat That My Heart Skipped), who makes him a Godfather-like offer he can't refuse: kill Reyeb (Hichem Yacoubi), an Arab set to testify against the Corsicans, or meet his maker. Malik decides he would prefer to live (in a surrealistic touch, Reyeb's ghost will haunt him for the rest of the film). In return, Luciani offers him protection but stops short of treating him like an equal. When Malik isn't serving coffee and making deliveries, he studies French and Corsu. With what he learns from the mobsters, he befriends two other loners, Ryad (Adel Bencherif) and Jordi the Gypsy (Reda Kateb), and starts a drug-smuggling operation. The years pass, and Malik takes advantage of his parole leaves to work both sides of the fence, and when the authorities transfer C�sar's crew to a different facility, the balance of power shifts from the aging master to the model student. At 149 minutes, A Prophet feels more like a miniseries than a movie, but there are no dead spots, no wasted moments, resulting in Audiard's most fully realized vision to date. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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A PROPHET (UN PROPHETE) : AWARDS AND HONORS

*Academy Awards, USA
2010 Nominated Oscar
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year France.
*BAFTA Awards
2010 Won BAFTA Film Award
Best Film Not in the English Language
Pascal Caucheteux
Marco Cherqui
Alix Raynaud
Jacques Audiard
*Brothers Manaki International Film Festival
2009 Won Bronze Camera 300
Best Cinematography
Stéphane Fontaine
*Cannes Film Festival
Golden Palm
Nominated
Jacques Audiard
*César Awards, France,2010
Best Actor (Meilleur acteur)
Tahar Rahim
Best Cinematography (Meilleure photographie)
Stéphane Fontaine
Best Director (Meilleur réalisateur)
Jacques Audiard
Best Editing (Meilleur montage)
Juliette Welfling
Best Film (Meilleur film)
Pascal Caucheteux (produceur)
Grégoire Sorlat (produceur)
Marco Cherqui (produceur)
Jacques Audiard (director)
Best Production Design (Meilleurs décors)
Michel Barthélémy
Best Supporting Actor (Meilleur acteur dans un second rôle)
Niels Arestrup
Best Writing - Original (Meilleur scénario original)
Jacques Audiard
Thomas Bidegain
Abdel Raouf Dafri
Nicolas Peufaillit

*European Film Awards
2009 Won European Film Award
Best Actor
Tahar Rahim
Prix d'Excellence
Brigitte Taillandier
Francis Wargnier
Jean-Paul Hurier
Marc Doisne
For the sound design.
Nominated European Film Award
Best Cinematographer
Stéphane Fontaine
Best Director
Jacques Audiard
Best Film
Best Screenwriter
Jacques Audiard
Abdel Raouf Dafri
Thomas Bidegain
Nicolas Peufaillit
*Golden Globes, USA
2010 Nominated
Golden Globe
Best Foreign Language Film
*Independent Spirit Awards
2010 Nominated
Independent Spirit Award
Best Foreign Film
Jacques Audiard *London Critics Circle Film Awards
2010 Won
ALFS Award
Film of the Year
Nominated
ALFS Award
Actor of the Year
Tahar Rahim
Director of the Year
Jacques Audiard
Foreign Language Film of the Year
Screenwriter of the Year
Jacques Audiard
Thomas Bidegain
*London Film Festival
2009 Won Best Film
Jacques Audiard
*Lumiere Awards, France
*National Board of Review, USA
*Prix Louis Delluc
*Étoiles d'Or

A PROPHET : ARTS AND FAITH

Jacques Audiard, director of acclaimed 'A Prophet,' takes an emotional turn ...: When Audiard was at Cannes with "A Prophet," he spoke of his longstanding interest in what he called "self-education, the building of someone's character," and the director says his new film fits that category as well. "You can say the same thing about ...
Free Men review: A Prophet's Tahar Rahim impresses in this flimsy interpretation of one of the lesser-known subchapters in French WWII history. Catch the best new French films this month before they hit UK cinema screens. With A Prophet out on DVD this week, ...
Our Children (A Perdre la Raison): Film Review: Featuring a riveting lead turn from Emilie Dequenne as a young mother caught between two men (A Prophet stars Tahar Rahim and Niels Arestrup) in a claustrophobic nightmare, this gloomy and penetrating psychological drama should receive steady art house ...
Marion Cotillard as a Hot Amputee in Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone at Cannes ...: It's director Jacques Audiard's follow-up to A Prophet, which premiered at Cannes in 2009 and went on to be nominated for the Foreign Language Film Oscar the following year. Audiard has emerged as an international cinema titan over the past decade or ...

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THE DIRECTOR : JACQUES AUDIARD

Born in Paris, France, in 1952. Jacques Audiard's family has always been involved in movie business. His father, Michel, was a popular screenwriter and director and his uncle a producer.At the beginning of the 1980s he successfully began screenwriting, including Réveillon chez Bob! and Mortelle randonnée, Baxter, Fréquence Meurtre and Saxo.In 1994, to raise up the money to make his first movie "Regarde les hommes tomber" a somber road movie starred by two of the most important French actors: Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean Louis Trintignant.Kassovitz also became the star of his second movie "Un heros tres discret" released in the Festival de Cannes in 1996.In 2001 he made his third movie "Sur mes levres". The love story between two outsiders (a deaf office worker and a hoodlum) who decide to con a group of gangsters also became a success. It also won three Cesars (best actress, sound and screenplay).His last movie, "De battre mon Coeur sest arrête" (a remake of "Fingers" a James Toback's movie) was released in the Berlin festival of 2005.

JACQUES AUDIARD : SELECT FILMOGRAPHY

***Writer:
Un prophète (2009) (screenplay)
De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (2005) (writer)
Sur mes lèvres (2001) (writer)
Vénus beauté (institut) (1999) (writer)
Norme française (1998) (writer)
Un héros très discret (1996) (writer)
Regarde les hommes tomber (1994) (writer)
Grosse fatigue (1994) (co-dialogue) (uncredited)
Confessions d'un Barjo (1992) (dialogue) (screenplay)
Swing troubadour (1991) (writer)
Australia (1989) (scenario and dialogue)
Baxter (1989) (writer)
Fréquence meurtre (1988) (writer)
Poussière d'ange (1987) (dialogue) (scenario)
Saxo (1987) (writer)
Sac de noeuds (1985) (writer)
Réveillon chez Bob (1984) (scenario)
"Série noire" (1 episode, 1984)
Mortelle randonnée (1983) (adaptation)
Le professionnel (1981) (writer)
Bons baisers... à lundi (1974) (adaptation)
***Director:
Un prophète (2009)
De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (2005)
Sur mes lèvres (2001)
Norme française (1998)
Un héros très discret (1996)
Regarde les hommes tomber (1994)
***Actor:
Grossesse nerveuse (1993) (TV) .... L'antiquaire
Les enfants de la plage (1991) (TV) .... Le professeur #1
Baby Blood (1990) .... Le décapité/Jogger

***Producer:
Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante (2009) (co-producer)

JACQUES AUDIARD BY VOTES

Jacques Audiard praises B movies at Cannes: CANNES, France ? Jacques Audiard is on a quest to revive the B movie. The French director has won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival and been nominated for an Academy Award, but he has a passion for the colorful cut-price end of the cinema market: ...
Marion Cotillard as a Hot Amputee in Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone at Cannes ...: It's director Jacques Audiard's follow-up to A Prophet, which premiered at Cannes in 2009 and went on to be nominated for the Foreign Language Film Oscar the following year. Audiard has emerged as an international cinema titan over the past decade or ...
'Rust and Bone' director Jacques Audiard praises B movies at Cannes, citadel ...: CANNES, France ? Jacques Audiard is on a quest to revive the B movie. The French director has won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival and been nominated for an Academy Award, but he has a passion for the colorful cut-price end of the cinema market: ...
Marion Cotillard in Cannes film 'Rust and Bone': CANNES, France ? Jacques Audiard's new movie features poverty, bare-knuckle fighting and a killer whale attack. The French director says it's a sunny romance. "Rust and Bone" ? a strange and surprising love story starring Academy Award-winning French ...

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WHICH ONE IS YOUR BEST FRENCH FILM?

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Director: Agnès Varda, Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane

Rocco and His Brothers is a 1960 Italian and French film directed by Luchino Visconti. Set in Milan, it tells the story of an immigrant family from the South and its disintegration in the society of the industrial North. A great saga that belongs to my list of best foreign films without reservation.

Shoot the Piano Player is a 1960 French film directed by Francois Truffaut, starring Charles Aznavour. Wow! This should be in any Top 100 Foreign Films list, no exception!

Director: François Truffaut, Cast: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois

Diary of a Country Priest is a 1951 French film directed by Robert Bresson, and starring Claude Laydu. It was closely based on the novel of the same name by Georges Bernanos. It tells the story of a young, sickly priest, who has just arrived in his first parish, a village in northern France.

Belle de jour is a 1967 French film starring Catherine Deneuve as a woman who decides to spend her days as a prostitute while her husband is at work. A terrific creation, this will adorn any list of best foreign language films.
Director: Luis Buñuel, Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel

Mon Oncle is a 1958 film comedy by French filmmaker Jacques Tati. The first of Tati's films to be released in colour, Mon Oncle won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a Special Prize at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film, receiving more honors than any of Tati's other cinematic works.

Contempt (French: Le Mepris) is a 1963 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. A must see for anyone who wants to explore the Top 100 Foreign Films of all times.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli

My Favorite Season is a 1993 French drama film directed by Andre Techine. The story concerns a matriarch Berthe (Marthe Villalonga) who goes to live with her daughter Emilie (Catherine Deneuve) and her family. It won the award for Best Foreign Language Films at the 1996 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards.

Breathless is a 1960 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Godard's first feature-length film is among the inaugural films of the French New Wave and came straight into my list of Top Foreign Films. It derived from a scenario by fellow New Wave director, Francois Truffaut, and the film was released the year after Truffaut's The 400 Blows and Alain Resnais's Hiroshima, Mon Amour.

The Butcher is a 1970 French drama / thriller film written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Helene is a confident, slightly naive young teacher who is adored by her pupils at the school where she works and lives. She meets the local butcher, Popaul, at a wedding ceremony, and they strike up a close but platonic relationship.

Beauty and the Beast is a 1946 French romantic fantasy film. The plot of Cocteau's film revolves around Belle's father who is sentenced to death for picking a rose from Beast's garden.

Director: Jean Cocteau, Cast: Jean Marais, Josette Day

The 400 Blows is a 1959 French film directed by Francois Truffaut. One of the defining films of the French New Wave, it displays many of the characteristic traits of the movement. The story revolves around Antoine Doinel, an ordinary adolescent in Paris, who is thought by his parents and teachers to be a trouble maker.

The Samurai is a 1967 French minimalist crime drama/thriller film directed by French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville. The film's protagonist Jef Costello is played by Alain Delon. You will find this film in any sensible best foreign movies list.

Forbidden Games is a 1952 French language film directed by Rene Clement and based on Francois Boyer's novel, Jeux interdits. It has a very unique place in my best foreign films list.