Cinema

A Prophet (18)

Wed 26 May, 6 & 8.30pm, £4.50 (£3.50)

• France 2009 149 min. Dir. Jacques Audiard. With Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Abdel Bencherif.

The acclaimed director of ‘The Beat That My Heart Skipped’ brings us the winner of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix. Condemned to six years in prison, illiterate Malik El Djbena is much younger and more fragile than the other convicts. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison, he is given a number of “missions” to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader’s confidence in the process.