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CAREER BUILDING

Today's film was The Prophet (2009)

the most recent Jacques Audiard film.

It is a NYTimes Critics' Pick and won the Cannes Grand Prize.

It is a tight in story about a young man who turns 19, is sent to prison instead of the juvey and makes a career for himself in the can.

Short but totally inadequate description of what goes on here.

He does well. He gets an education. He gets a good record so that he can have leaves where he performs jobs for the godfather figure in the prison who has taken him on.

He is a quick study and sets up his own inside/outside parallel rackets.

Eventually, he rises to the top. This is not a spoiler as the film is about how this comes about.

This is in the French prison system but I think they are all the same.

I saw this quite recently and wanted to see it again and will want to see it again after this.

It is a tough and true film. Read the NYTimes review.

The young actor here, Tahar Rahim, has a great career ahead of him. He was grabbed up for four movies after this one came out. Momentum. His prison mentor and boss is played by the incredible Niels Arestrup who was in yesterday's film as the father.

I will give it a 5 out of Netflix5.

Here we have Arestrup, Audiard and Rahim at Cannes.

Labels: films