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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 , [5] 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.
- (17K)
- Crime, Drama
- Jacques Audiard
- 2016-05-13
May 6, 2016 · Overall, though, "Dheepan" is finely-drawn, beautifully shot and acted, featuring complex characters doing their best in no-win situations. The film opens in a refugee camp in Sri Lanka, with people hustling in a panic to get out of the country. A man, a woman, and an orphan child pose as a family (using three passports found on dead bodies) in ...
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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 housing project.
- (132)
- Jacques Audiard
- R
- Jesuthasan Antonythasan
Apr 7, 2016 · Dheepan comes close to unravelling in its final rather overblown action sequence, which fudges one of its own conditions of suspense: someone with a gun held to the head in one scene, but not the ...
- Peter Bradshaw
- 4 min
May 5, 2016 · 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 having lost none of the timeliness ...
Trailer for Dheepan. With this Palme d’Or–winning drama, which deftly combines seemingly disparate genres, French filmmaker Jacques Audiard cemented his status as a titan of contemporary world cinema. In an arresting performance, the nonprofessional actor Antonythasan Jesuthasan (himself a former child soldier) stars as a Tamil fighter who ...
