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When most people think of crime or gangster films, they might think of classic Hollywood portrayals like Goodfellas or Reservoir Dogs, but they rarely include any films from outside the realm of Hollywood as part of the conversation. If the Best Picture win for Bong Joon Ho's Parasite at the 2020 Oscars has served as any indication, it's that some of the most well-made films in the world happen to come from overseas. For any fans of the crime genre, the Academy Award-nominated French film, A Prophet (or Un prophète) is an absolute must-watch. Since its release, A Prophet has gone on to gain a reputation as being one of the best French films ever made. It's a film that has plenty of thought-provoking drama and thrills going for...

Sony Pictures Entertainment has optioned the rights to remake A Prophet, the French hit released in the Us in 2010, into an English language film to be produced by Neal H. Moritz and Toby Jaffe through the Original Film banner, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures, and Hannah Minghella, president of Production for the studio.

Directed by Jacques Audiard, the film tells the story of a young man's rise to power in a criminal syndicate after he is mentored by a crime boss. A Prophet was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2010 and was honored with the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and nine C&#233sar Awards (French Oscar), including Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actor.

Commenting on the announcement, Neal H. Moritz had this to say.

"This is an epic crime saga with compelling characters and original storytelling.

This is the Pure Movies review of A Prophet, directed by Jacques Audiard and starring Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb and Jean-Philippe Ricci. Reviewed by award-winning screenwriter Garth Twa. There’s something like a birth at the beginning of Jacques Audiard’s new film, A Prophet. We glimpse a confusing world of disembodied sounds and blurry, obscured images, like we’ve just arrived, like we’re seeing things through a sack on a hostage’s head, or, indeed, a fallopian tube. Malik (Tahar Rahim) appears in this prison which is the whole world, like a newborn, with no discernable past. He is has no friends, no family, no religion that he seems conscious of, Euro-less, illiterate. He’s been sentenced to six years, though we never find out what for. Everything he is, which isn’t much, and everything he’ll become, which is formidable,...

You can bring home a critically acclaimed film from director Jacques Audiard on DVD and Blu-ray this August. A Prophet will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 3. The standard DVD will be priced at $27.96 Srp while the Bd will be priced at $38.96 Srp and you can take a look at the cover art and special features below. The film stars Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb and Gilles Cohen.

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...

Sony Picture Classics has released the first international trailer for Jacques Audiard's A Prophet. The film won the Grand Prix at Cannes in May and has been heralded by many as being one of the best films of the year.

The film stars Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Reda Kateb, Hichem Yacoubi and Jean-Philippe Ricci and tells the story of Malik, a young Arab incarcerated for six years after being convicted of a petty crime. On the inside he quickly learns the prisoners rules and finds himself under threat from the Corsican don, César. César offers him the choice of killing Reyeb, an enemy of theirs, or dying. Malik chooses to kill Reyeb, only to be haunted by his memory, and from then on his respect, confidence and criminal network continue to grow, leading him to the top of an organization he forged from the inside.

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