Dheepan (2015)

Directed by

Jacques Audiard

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

R

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 530 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three Tamil refugees escape the civil war in Sri Lanka and start a new life together in a rough housing project in France. They pretend to be a family to get asylum, but violence from local gangs threatens their fragile new existence.

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What happens

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, alongside newcomers Kalieaswari Srinivasan and Claudine Vinasithamby. The film tells the story of three Tamil refugees who flee the civil war-ravaged Sri Lanka and come to France, in the hope of reconstructing their lives. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It was later shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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