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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 2015 film by Jacques Audiard, based on the true story of a Tamil warrior who flees the civil war in Sri Lanka and settles in France with two strangers. The film explores the challenges and conflicts of his new life as a caretaker in a violent suburb.
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- Crime, Drama
- Jacques Audiard
- 2016-05-13
May 6, 2016 · "Dheepan," the controversial 2015 Palme d'Or winner, was written and directed by Jacques Audiard, whose films often focus on the forgotten and marginalized, the criminal, the displaced, characters who try to move out of a permanent underclass into the alienating mainstream of French life.
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 Parisian...
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- Jacques Audiard
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- Jesuthasan Antonythasan
May 5, 2016 · Who is Dheepan, really? How decent? How damaged? How brave? And what kind of movie is “Dheepan”? These are not really separate questions.
- Jacques Audiard
Mar 30, 2016 · A heartrending saga of three strangers united by circumstance and struggle, Dheepan is both a tour-de-force thriller and a powerful depiction of the immigrant experience. Subscribe to IFC ...
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- IFC Films
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Feb 24, 2016 · From acclaimed director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust and Bone) comes the powerful story of Dheepan, a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who is forced to flee to France to...
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