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Dheepan is a 2015 French crime drama film directed by Jacques Audiard and co-written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, and Noé Debré. The film was partly inspired by Montesquieu's Persian Letters, as well as the 1971 film Straw Dogs, with guidance from Antonythasan Jesuthasan, who stars as the title character.
May 13, 2016 · Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris. Director. Jacques Audiard. Writers. Jacques Audiard. Thomas Bidegain. Noé Debré. Stars. Jesuthasan Antonythasan. Kalieaswari Srinivasan. Claudine Vinasithamby. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. +2. Add to Watchlist.
"Dheepan," featuring two extraordinary central performances, starts in the chaos of civil war in Sri Lanka and moves to another kind of chaos in a housing project in Le Pré-Saint-Gervais. When the film focuses on the everyday life of the makeshift family at its center, it is compelling and thought-provoking.
Apr 7, 2016 · Dheepan review – a crime drama packed with epiphanic grandeur. Jacques Audiard’s confident Palme d’Or-winner has a rare and keen interest in its characters – a trio of Tamil refugees in Paris –...
May 5, 2016 · Dheepan. NYT Critic’s Pick. Directed by Jacques Audiard. Crime, Drama. R. 1h 55m. By A.O. Scott. May 5, 2016. Jacques Audiard’s “Dheepan,” which won the Palme d’Or in Cannes a year ago, arrives...
May 6, 2016 · Aug 22, 2022. Three Sri Lankan refugees (Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby) pretend to be a family as they try to make better lives for themselves in a ...
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A piercing and perceptive film about the contemporary refugee experience in France, Jacques Audiard’s 2015 Palme d’Or winner Dheepan depicts the difficulties of living as a stranger in a strange land.
