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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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