Comments on: Un Prophète [A Prophet, Jacques Audiard 2009] https://www.cynephile.com/2010/02/un-prophete-a-prophet-jacques-audiard-2009/ "The cinema is cruel like a miracle." -Frank O'Hara Sat, 06 Aug 2016 14:14:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.37 By: no manifesto https://www.cynephile.com/2010/02/un-prophete-a-prophet-jacques-audiard-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:58:33 +0000 http://www.cynephile.com/?p=299#comment-32 Wow! So glad to see you write about this film. I loved this film so much I watched it two nights in a row.

I found the depiction of Malik’s identity very interesting. He is not religious, instead he is “a prophet” who follows his own visions. The film manages to depict muslims in a sympathetic light (despite that in the film they are criminals, drug dealers, killers) without really glorifying Islam (except perhaps its mystical aspects).

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