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A Prophet
Why this pick
Audiard again turns a volatile young man’s survival instincts into a gripping moral transformation, with the same muscular urban tension and intimate attention to inherited violence.
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MOVIE2005 1h 47m FRA
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Why this pick
Its restrained realism and Vincent Lindon’s tightly contained performance echo Tom’s pressure-cooker existence, finding ethical strain in everyday labour rather than stylised crime.
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Intense young "tough" Thomas Seyr is a 28-year-old real estate broker involved in shady business deals. His business partners, Fabrice and Sami, spend much of their time ruthlessly chasing squatters and illegal immigrants out of the buildings they have procured and trying to work their way around government housing regulations. Thomas is born to this kind of work; his father, Robert, is also involved in dodgy enterprises and sometimes calls upon Thomas to beat up people who refuse to pay. Tom shows a protective and defensive attitude toward his father who doesn't always appreciate what his son does for him – so much so that when his father introduces his new girlfriend to Tom, Tom undermines her to her face, and insults her to his father, insisting she is an opportunistic "whore." Later, when he tries to enlist her help to watch over his father, she tells him they broke up due to Robert changing his attitude and she is aware of Tom's backstabbing because Robert told her. Robert by this time is in danger from a Russian gangster, Minskov (Anton Yakovlev) who scammed him out of 300,000 Euros and Tom is worried for his safety.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Romain Duris
Thomas Seyr
Niels Arestrup
Robert Seyr
Gilles Cohen
Sami
Aure Atika
Aline
Mélanie Laurent
La petite amie de Minskov
Omar Habib
Assad
Linh Dan Pham
Miao Lin
Vladislav Galard
Clerk