French crime drama A Prophet (Un Prophète) has been positioned by critics and festival panel members alike as being one of 2010’s films to watch. Besides being France’s selection for the Academy ...

When writer Abdel Raouf Dafri and producer Marco Cherqui come onto Zoom to discuss their series reboot of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 classic A Prophet it is hard to get a question in edgeways as they ...

An indigent boy goes on a peripatetic journey of ascension within the criminal world in an institution purported to reform, curb, and punish law-breaking activities. Since that very institution allows ...

The most American movie of the year is French. "A Prophet," the incendiary crime epic from Jacques Audiard, is an immigrant allegory, a parable of ambition, a Horatio Alger-esque, up-by-the-bootstraps ...

A Prophet is the second significant modern crime film to come from Europe in the past two years. Italian director Matteo Garrone packed an ever-expanding plot into Gomorra and its dissection of Napoli ...