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Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena, part Arab, part Corsican, cannot read or write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang currently ruling the prison, he is given a number of “missions” to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader’s confidence in the process. Malik is a fast learner and rises up the prison ranks, all the while secretly devising his own plans.

Hmm – the empire review totally jars with the four star rating and the verdict. Andrew Male seems lukewarm in his response to the film – judging it to be confused and unable to keep it’s threads going and that Audiard is in over his head. A clear 2 or 3 star review. Did the editor pull rank? Because surely he would have to after viewing something so masterful as this film.

Audiard came to my attention with the sublime The Beat My Heart Skipped and just like that film he has inspired a per… Read More

Seen in cinema last night:

tp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235166/]Un Prophète (A Prophet)n 2005 French director Jacques Audiard got much praise for his crime thriller “De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté”(The Beat That My Heart Skipped). Now, well over 4 years later, he`s back with the brilliant Un Prophète – earning him a Best Foreign Language Oscar nomation. And rightly so.
It happens quite some times that a film gets great reviews unanimously but dissapoints after … Read More

Can’t say I noticed I’m afraid.

Does anyone know if the French dvd/blu ray has English subtitles as an option? I can’t find the information and my French is practically non-existent. … Read More

A superb film, and one of the best I’ve seen for a while, surpassing The Motorcycle Diaries and The Lives Of Others IMO. I do have one general question – did anyone notice that part way through the film, some of the dialogue became quite tinny, but the rest of the soundtrack sounded ok? I think it was the cinema system/recording myself, as some deep humming sound was also heard, as if one of the speakers had gone funny? … Read More

My only real complaint with this movie was the utterly ridiculous Dear and Headlights segments… It just seemed really tacky and didn’t fit with the gritty and brutal, yet beautiful nature of the rest of the movie.

I also think that It could have been trimmed down a bit to make it a much tighter experience. I feel some of the scenes and storyline archs weren’t neccesery and could maybe have been removed, but thats just my personal judgement.

Great Empire Review anyway… 4/5 is proba… Read More

L: Timon

I really enjoyed the film, but I do feel the ‘prophet’ scenes and Reyeb’s flashbacks seemed a tad shoehorned in. That, or other stuff was heavily deleted.

However apart from this, it was a very good film although I wish Malik had ditched his Borat-esque mustache.

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I had initial reservations about the Reyeb scenes and the allusion to Maliks prophetic faculties but the over-arching fact is that the concern of religious mysticism is felt very important to its origin…. Read More

I really enjoyed the film, but I do feel the ‘prophet’ scenes and Reyeb’s flashbacks seemed a tad shoehorned in. That, or other stuff was heavily deleted.

However apart from this, it was a very good film although I wish Malik had ditched his Borat-esque mustache.
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L: demoncleaner

What could be more self-indulgent than characters from a different culture often speaking their own language?

I saw it again last night and a second viewing affirmed its compact brilliance. I do admit that satisfaction has been somewhat eclipsed however by the joyous trepidation I feel upon discovering that yet ement is possible due to the insights of a few desultory viewers who were able to spot that it was clumsy and vague in places.&n… Read More

What could be more self-indulgent than characters from a different culture often speaking their own language?

I saw it again last night and a second viewing affirmed its compact brilliance. I do admit that satisfaction has been somewhat eclipsed however by the joyous trepidation I feel upon discovering that yet ement is possible due to the insights of a few desultory viewers who were able to spot that it was clumsy and vague in places. That it i] b… Read More

Blown away by this movie. This is proper film-making, and the razor scene was as tense as the assassination in ‘The Godfather’, it’s that good.
Also, Tahar Rahim holds the picture together and he definitely has the looks and talent to go very far. … Read More