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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 ...
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 ...
- Peter Bradshaw
- 4 min
May 6, 2016 · 87% 132 Reviews Tomatometer 82% 2,500+ Ratings Audience Score Three Sri Lankan refugees (Jesuthasan ... Dheepan is a tough and gritty film about the refugee experience, filled with subtle but ...
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- Jacques Audiard
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- Jesuthasan Antonythasan
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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 ...
- Jacques Audiard
- A.O. Scott
- 115 min
May 6, 2016 · ‘Dheepan’ Review: Jacques Audiard’s Palme d’Or Winner Is a Searing Immigrant Drama. Director of “A Prophet” captures the turbulent world of crime-ridden Parisian neighborhoods in this ...
May 21, 2015 · Film Review: ‘Dheepan’. Jacques Audiard charts the lives of three Sri Lankan refugees in Paris in a well-acted and gripping but finally overwrought immigrant drama. The more things change, the ...
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.
