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Jacques Audiard
Review: A Prophet

Amid the two most recent European imports that de-romanticized or played with the formulas of gangster films (Gomorrah and Il Divo, respectively), it’s almost a surprise to see a modern Mafia movie that restores the genre to the operatic gravity of its Godfather lineage. The Academy Award nominee A Prophet does just that, while maintaining the gritty street cred and handheld verisimilitude that defined director Jacques Audiard’s previous success, 2004’s The Beat That My Heart Skipped. A Prophet is set in a French prison divided into an ethnic and cultural hierarchy between the privileged Corsicans and deprived Muslims. When meek, illiterate 19-year-old Arab Malik El...