"The Prophet"

Skyla 2022-03-23 09:02:02

Jacques Audiard's three films of this century, "Lip Talk", "The Rhythm My Heart Forgot" and "The Prophet", have completely abandoned the dark, ironic tone of the earlier films.

"Lip" is the most commercial, "I" is the most in-depth exploration, and "Pre" shows the author's best at inner criminal potential and contradictions to the extreme. From one line, Jacques is in this film. The style is more and more focused on realism, but the key expression of the characters' hearts continues the essence of the previous film.

In general, the style and technique are all first-class, but for me it feels similar to last year's Grand Prize "Gomorra (2008)" in Cannes. Appreciation is greater than feeling. So this year, Cannes film critics once gave the highest score, but I had a premonition that the Grand Prize would definitely be enough in terms of style.

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A Prophet quotes

  • César Luciani: You're saying I'm going to die alone here.

    Sampierro: Don't talk like that. You're not alone. You carry weight outside.

    César Luciani: And here?

  • Ryad: One day I saw a job ad. For security guard. I didn't have a dog, so I bought one secondhand. I didn't know, so I got a rottweiler. Know what they're like? And his name was Tyson. He came with the name Tyson. He was humongous! See this? This was the size of his poops. He took enormous dumps. Bigger than mine. So I work in a store. A big supermarket. I leave the dog to sniff around. I go outside for a cigarette. Then I try to go back in. I couldn't. He didn't always recognize me.

    Malik El Djebena: Your own dog?

    Ryad: But he was crazy. Tyson was a psycho. I go inside and he comes charging towards me. I panic, reach out my arm. He grabs me like this. I take out my mace, spray him. He lets go. I run out, scared shitless. What do I do? I leave him inside. Soon the employees start coming. I didn't know they used a back door to go inside. The hound had a field day. He tore every last one to pieces.