Un Prophète (2009)

Just watched this recent French prison flick, which tells the story of a young french-arab prisoner who falls under the influence of the Corsican mob and subsequently works his way up the ladder. It's fairly bleak -- as you'd expect from a movie most of which takes place in a french gaol -- but not a bad film. I'm not sure it merited the fan fare that seemed to surround it at the Oscars.