Seen Said
5Dec11
I think A PROPHET shares the same magnitude as THE GODFATHER, but has more in common with GOODFELLAS since both films focus on an outsider trying to claim his own in an imbalanced power structure.
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Bill Rosenfield
25Mar12
Always compelling, but sometimes a bit incomprehensible nevertheless I can't wait to see it again. Great performances all around.
Arthur Freitas
26Feb12
Enérgico, fantástico, arrebatador. Um dos mais destacáveis filmes franceses dos últimos anos.
Dylan Fries
20Jan12
One of the best movies I've seen this year. Great character study, crime/prison flick that explores power, politics and racism. I felt it ended quickly at 2 1/2 hours.
Michael Harbour
13Jan12
Very well made and well performed movie which chronicles, step by step, a petty crook's education and growth in a French prison. The last shot nicely wraps up the film and does it far more subtly than most would dare.
Roberto Russo
17Oct11
For those comparing A Prophet with Godfather, I must ask: wtf is wrong with you? It's a good movie all around, but c'mon. Niels Arestrup is the high.
Judicial Joe
5Aug11
Really wish this had more of an emotional resonance a la Melville, otherwise it's just a professionally shot, professionally told crime story. B-
Risya
14Jul11
Un Prophète is tough and a bit uneasy to watch, but it is well constructed. Prison gangster theme of surviving and "graduating" in it. It's interesting to see how he rises through the criminal ranks to become a big boss where he ultimately plays everyone in order to become a gang warlord of sorts for himself.
xPanchi
7Jun11
Cuando se va a la cárcel aparentemente hay 2 caminos: o quitarse de problemas o unirse a alguna pandilla sanguinaria para salvarse del ataque de otros..............en esta película el protagonista intenta (como todos yo creo) el camino A y luego ya de plano se va al B y surgen miles de situaciones hardcore que te dejan con ganas de ser bueno maximo y jamas llegar a un lugar así y tener que optar (dios sálvanos!!jaja)
VENIMOS LOS JODIMOS Y NOS FUIMOS
16May11
Un interesante trabajo de Jaques Audiard, ubicado en las antipodas del cine de gangsters americano, en el cual, el director presenta una interesante mirada acerca de la oposición entre las minorias musulmanas e italianas radicadas en el pais galo, usando como telón de fondo el microcosmos representado por una corrompida prisión francesa, además de una poco velada critica al sistema judicial de aquel país. El ritmo incesante, el estupendo desempeño del reparto, la efectividad de un guión muy bien estructurado (aderezado, además, con algunos toques de misticismo) y su verista puesta en escena, permiten recomendar a esta violenta cinta como uno de los ejemplos más sobresalientes de la cinematografia francesa de los últimos años, y una buena muestra de que no todo lo que brilla es Martin Scorsese.
Jeremiah Hammerling
1Apr11
It wouldn't be truthful to suggest this film is above criticism, but after watching it I didn't have anything to say or any qualms at all. To put it simply: just watch it. It's a worthy addition (as well as a new spin) to the gangster genre.
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Bambang N Karim
20Mar11
Un Prophete is not “Oz” the TV series, neither any prison movie I have seen, although there is a bit of Jean Valjean here. This is a tale of redemption and survival of Malik El Djebena,an illiterate Muslim immigrant, in a corrupt hellhole prison in Paris.Beyond (if any) “lefty sympathy” sentiment, this remarkable work of director Jacques Audiard become such a profound of current France political and social portrait.
comeandsee
2Jan11
a true modern masterpiece of the crime genre. compositionally perfect, with the lighting and camerawork of the most excellent quality. a story which is as good as an genre cinema piece also. the rise from invisibility to dominance is one of the main themes of this film, and one which it deals with superbly. it cannot be helped but note how it has certain resemblances to the godfather and similar crime pieces.
