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Guess we spoke too soon last week when praising the early arrival of summer... oh well. Let’s all just keep our fingers crossed that the weather improves and is of as high a quality as this week’s selection of films at YSC.
Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2009 as well as the joint-record holder for most awards at the Cesars (French film awards), A Prophet has been hailed by many as a modern day masterpiece that could one day join the echelons of the all-time classics. Malik El Djebena (an excellent performance from Tahir Rahim) is an illiterate French-Arab teen sent to prison for six years for violence against the police. During this time he finds himself initiated into the prison’s criminal underworld.
Based on the amazing book by bestseller Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island is the latest film by Martin Scorsese with his muse Leonardo DiCaprio. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) is assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Rachel Solando, a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane built on Shutter Island. With enough twists and turns to keep any viewer on their toes, this film sees Scorsese seamlessly traverse the realms of a psychological thriller.
Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass, having proved to be a formidable pair in the Bourne trilogy, team up once again to deliver an explosive war thriller in the form of Green Zone. Here Damon stars as Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller, who is sent to Baghdad in 2003 to find weapons of mass destruction thought to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. However, things are not all as they seem as he soon comes across a conspiracy to hide the truth of the Iraq War from the world.
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