New Release: A Prophet DVD and Blu-ray

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Laurence
– June 1, 2010Find Others: Blu-ray, DVD, Movie, New Release, NewsGet More: , ,

A ProphetJacques Audiard’s A Prophet, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign language film, was released on DVD and Blu-ray on Aug. 3, 2010, from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

The crime movie details the gritty prison career of the 19-year-old Malik (Tahar Rahim), an Arab man sent to a French prison, where he begins carrying out a number of dangerous jobs for the prison’s ruling Corsican gang. Over time, Malik is able to earn the gang leader’s confidence and rise up through the prison ranks, all while secretly devising his own plans for the future.

The fully supplemented Blu-ray Disc and DVD include the following extras:

  • A Prophet DVD boxcommentary with director Jacques Audiard, actor Tahar Rahim and co-screenwriter Thomas Bidegain
  • Deleted scenes
  • screen tests
  • rehearsal footage

In French with English subtitles, A Prophet carries a suggested retail price of $27.96 for the DVD and $38.96 for the Blu-ray.

 

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.