A Prophet

At age 18, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is just beginning a six-year prison sentence in this drama from THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED director Jacques Audiard. Though he cannot read or write, Malik soon figures out the politics of the prison system, giving him a prime spot in the power struggle between two battling groups of prisoners. A PROPHET reunites Audiard with two of his stars from THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED, Niels Arestrup and Gilles Cohen, as well as that film’s director of photography, Stéphane Fontaine, and its composer, Alexandre Desplat. An Oscar and Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

“Sensational, sweeping and precisely observed. A pitch-perfect film.” (Manohla Dargis, New York Times)

“A Prophet, Jacques Audiard’s masterful prison saga, will undoubtedly be considered to be one of the great films of 2010, if not the coming decade.” (Wendy Ide, Times [U.K.])