With all of the films and film news coming out of Hollywood on such a consistent basis, it's easy to overlook the Indie circuit and the latest foreign films that are soon to find their wide audience. With foreign films, it seems there is a handful from across the pond each year that gain a solid following in the States. A few years back it was Pan's Labyrinth, followed closely by The Lives of Others, the eventual Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language film. Last year Waltz with Bashir and The Class found an audience. This year, A Prophet might be one of the foreign films to find an American following.A Prophet (Un Prophete) is a Belgium film that tells the story of a young Arab man, a soft 19-year old, sent to a French prison and, under the pressure of a pocket of Corsican mafia inhabiting the prison, is forced into a series of tasks. What these Corsican mafia men did not plan on was the young man's talent as a hood and a killer. Judging from the trailer, complete with a few snippets of glowing reviews and a dynamite song from a band called Turner Cody, Un Prophete looks like a fireball of a movie that could catch on with American audiences...
