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A Prophet

This multi-award winning French movie is set in a prison. A young Arab arrives, and is ordered by the local Corsican crime boss to kill another Arab. Once this is done, the two men start becoming closer, but exactly who is running the game? In French language with English subtitles.

152 minutes, No persons under 16 (Language, Sex, Violence)
Crime, Drama, On the art circuit

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Credits
Cast	Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb, Jean-Philippe Ricci, Gilles Cohen
Director	Jacques Audiard
Screenplay	Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard, based on the screenplay by Abdel Raouf Dafri, Nicolas Peufaillit
Music	Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography	Stephane Fontaine
Editing	Juliette Welfling
Sound formats	Dolby Digital
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2009
Produced by	A consortium of European companies
SA Distributor	Ster-Kinekor

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FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Action, drama
Language	Strong and frequent
Nudity	Moderate, in sexual and non-sexual context
Sex	A couple of pretty strongly implied scenes
Violence	Moderate to strong, frequent, bloody
Prejudice	Mild
Blasphemy	Infrequent
Drug abuse	Tobacco use and references to drugs, fairly often
Comments	None
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Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
International Media
Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert	20
eye Weekly (Canada)Jason Anderson	15
Rolling Stone (US)Peter Travers	20
Metacritic.com28 critics	18
RottenTomatoes.com120 critics	16
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer	19
Internet (IMDB)8618 Netizens	16

Average .. 89%	17

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