For good or bad, you’ll be in the depths of a prison when you see “A Prophet.” Jacques Audiard, the writer and director of the film, doesn’t just give you a visitor pass to get inside the gate; instead, you are taken into the wards as you follow Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim), an illiterate 19-year-old man, through his six-year sentence behind bars.

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