Un Prophete has received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and will be released in the U.S. by distributor Sony Pictures Classics on Friday, February 26th. Click here to watch the trailer.
Also released by Sony Pictures Classics (limited release on May 28th, 2010) is Micmacs.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the man that gave us Amelie and A Very Long Engagement, wrote and directed this film. Jeunet is one of he most inventive filmmakers working today; based on this trailer he hasn’t lost his touch. Here’s the synopsis:
Centers on a character named Bazil (Dany Boon) who is the son of a bomb disposal expert who died in in the middle of the Moroccan desert as a result of a an explosive device. Years later Bazil is in a club and receives a stray bullet in the head. He survives but must live with the bullet wedged in his head, which causes some strange side effects. He loses his job and soon gathers a rag-tag group and sets out to take down the two weapons manufacturers, which caused his life’s misfortune.
