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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.
- €8 million
- Nicolas Jaar
- Pascal Caucheteux, Jacques Audiard (uncredited)
- Antonythasan Jesuthasan
May 13, 2016 · Dheepan: Directed by Jacques Audiard. With Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers. Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.
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- Crime, Drama
- Jacques Audiard
- 2016-05-13
May 6, 2016 · "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.
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Movie Info. 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 Parisian...
- (132)
- Jacques Audiard
- R
- Jesuthasan Antonythasan
May 5, 2016 · 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 in North American theaters...
- Jacques Audiard
- A.O. Scott
- 115 min
Apr 7, 2016 · Marc Zinga, Kalieaswari Srinivasan and Antonythasan Jesuthasan. A Liberation Tiger warrior in the Sri Lankan civil war is forced in the bitterness of defeat to abandon his dreams and also his...
Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter, a Tiger. In Sri Lanka, the Civil War is reaching its end, and defeat is near. Dheepan decides to flee, taking with him two strangers - a woman and a little girl - hoping that they will make it easier for him to claim asylum in Europe. Arriving in Paris, the 'family' moves from one temporary home to another ...