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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,...

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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