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Dheepan

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Overview

Sri Lankan soldier Dheepan (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) flees his war-torn home country by posing as a member of a fake family with a female refugee (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and a young girl (Claudine Vinasithamby), which allows all three of them to seek asylum in a Parisian housing project. Although he has escaped from the conflict in Sir Lanka, Dheepan is haunted by his violent past and soon becomes entangled in the criminal activity at a low-rent apartment complex. Jacques Audiard directed this crime drama, which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
Jacques Audiard - Director

Details

    Blu-Ray Disc Format
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • UPC: 715515197618
  • Genre: MYSTERY / SUSPENSE / THRILLER
  • Rating: R (MPAA)
  • Release Date: May 2017

Movie Reviews

Reviews:
"Scene by scene, there’s a leanness and economy to Audiard’s filmmaking that gradually shifts, via dreamlike ellipses and temporal blurs, into a poetically heightened register." - 05/12/2016 Los Angeles Times


3 stars out of 4 -- "[F]eaturing two extraordinary central performances....When the film focuses on the everyday life of the makeshift family at its center, it is compelling and thought-provoking." - 05/06/2016 RogerEbert.com


"DHEEPAN has more than headlines on its mind. Its title character is in determined flight from political commitment and the violence that accompanies it, and the film is sympathetic to his aspirations." - 05/05/2016 New York Times


3 stars out of 4 -- "The interplay between the cast, especially the actor's scenes with Srinivasan's makeshift spouse, provide a deep, emotional give-and-take." - 05/06/2016 Rolling Stone


"It’s bulging with giant confidence and packed with outbursts of that mysterious epiphanic grandeur, like moments of sunlight breaking through cloud-cover, with which Audiard endows apparently normal sequences and everyday details." - 04/07/2016 The Guardian


"A Jacques Audiard movie looks deceptively naturalistic, but it’s as tightly coiled as a thriller and it hides allegories. Despite a controversial left-hand turn in the final moments, DHEEPAN is no exception." - 06/09/2016 Boston Globe

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