April 3."Un Prophete" was nominated for an Oscar and compared to the greatest mafia movies ever made, so when it popped up at one theater in town I saw it the first chance I got.
It's interesting that it was presented as a mafia movie since the entire story takes place during Malik El Djebena's, played by Tahar Rahim, prison sentence. The French prison is divided by Arabs and Corsicans. But Malik, who is both, keeps to himself. That is until the Corsican mafia inmates running the prison need his help. He doesn't exactly rise in the Corsican mafia, but he learns a lot and branches out on his own.
Rahim is an amazing newcomer and he plays the character, who spends half the story observing and letting things happen to and around him, brilliantly. He's also beautiful if you can get passed he weird 70s-porn mustache.
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