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The thug, played by a young unknown actor, quickly learns he can survive prison-life only by becoming the right-hand hit-man of his fellow prisoner, a Corsican mafia boss.
Karin Badt: Cannes Favorite: Jacques Audiard's "The Prophet" 2009
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Every journalist nods affirmatively, with no dissension: it's an original film, full of energy, fresh and tense, with the amoral universe of prison-life precisely delineated shot by shot.
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"Yes, I thought you were wearing a jacket that praised prison-life."
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I hope to write about prison-life and to try and change it for others, but it is too terrible and ugly to make a work of art of.
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To combat crime, Clarke plans to make prison-life as pleasant as possible, then invite ex-inmates along to five-star, all-you-can-eat state benefit buffet.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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To combat crime, Clarke plans to make prison-life as pleasant as possible, then invite ex-inmates along to five-star, all-you-can-eat state benefit buffet.
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The weeks slipped away, each one leaving little Patty stronger than it found her, and nearer to the end of her prison-life behind window panes.
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Their dark prison-life may have seemed to them the sunshine of all their lifetime.
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Meanwhile the tide of prison-life went on, without much variation.
Elizabeth Fry Mrs. E. R. Pitman
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Howard, the philanthropist, who did so much to alleviate the horrors of prison-life; Defoe, whom we all love for the sake of _Robinson Crusoe_;
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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