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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 former Tamil Tiger who flees to France with a woman and a girl he meets along the way. He faces violence, racism and trauma as he tries to build a new life in the suburbs.
- (17K)
- Crime, Drama
- Jacques Audiard
- 2016-05-13
May 6, 2016 · 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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- Jacques Audiard
- R
- Jesuthasan Antonythasan
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 that was widely noted last May. Screening ...
- Jacques Audiard
- A.O. Scott
- 115 min
May 6, 2016 · Dheepan is a film by Jacques Audiard about a Sri Lankan refugee family in France, starring Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, and Claudine Vinasithamby. The film explores their struggles with identity, language, and violence in a housing project overrun by drug dealers.
Apr 7, 2016 · After last week’s Victoria — a young Spanish woman’s ordeal by innocence in a Berlin crime world — in Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan a Tamil refugee, fleeing war, comes to Paris.
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Apr 6, 2016 · Dheepan, which won the Palme D'Or in Cannes last year, is the story of a traumatised Tamil soldier, a young woman and a child who pose as a family so they can flee the civil...
