"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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Extended Reading
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    The Godfather of Purgatory

A Prophet quotes

  • Jordi: I like porn set in castles. The girls are fancier, cleaner.

  • Jordi: When you get out, what'll you do?

    Malik El Djebena: I don't know. You?

    Jordi: Same thing as in here, only bigger.

    Malik El Djebena: Hash?

    Jordi: Yeah, hash. I'll move big loads. Marbella-Paris, three cars. Six hundred kilos each trip.

    [pause]

    Jordi: Don't believe me?

    Malik El Djebena: No, I'm just trying to picture six hundred kilos.

    Jordi: It's like this.

    [Jordi holds hash up to his eyes]

    Jordi: You can't see anything behind it.