Dheepan
A FILM BY Jacques Audiard
A FILM BY Jacques Audiard
Audiard's latest is a touchstone of precision and craft. With an exceptional cast that draws you immediately into their circumstance, this wonderful collision between a visceral genre film and a well drawn family drama is truly something to behold.
- Jason Gorger, Twitch
It shows Audiard once again drawn to resilient people in punishing situations, and its arc from the opening images of death to its final notes of hope and wholeness is quite moving.
- David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
What keeps “Dheepan” engaging throughout is the tremendous charisma of the performers — not only Antonythasan, whose brooding intensity suggests that Dheepan’s real war is the one raging inside him, but Srinivasan, an Indian stage actress also making her film debut here, who is achingly tender
- Scott Foundas, Variety
Un tour de force cinématographique.
- Odile Tremblay, Le Devoir
Un film très solide, magnifiquement réalisé.
- Marc-André Lussier, La Presse
Synopsis
Winner of the Palme D’Or at Cannes. An improvised "family" flees civil war in Sri Lanka only to end up in another violent conflict in Parisian slums.Theatrical Release Date
Friday, February 12, 2016
Original Languages: French, Tamil
Genre: Drama, Crime
Running Time: 109 min.
Year: 2014
Genre: Drama, Crime
Running Time: 109 min.
Year: 2014
Credits
CAST
Jesuthasan Antonythasan
Kalieaswari Srinivasan
Claudine Vinasithamby
DIRECTED BY
Jacques Audiard
Trailer
PHOTOS
Jesuthasan Antonythasan in Dheepan. Photo by Paul Arnaud, Why Not Productions.
Jesuthasan Antonythasan in Dheepan. Photo by Paul Arnaud, Why Not Productions.
Jesuthasan Antonythasan in Dheepan. Photo by Paul Arnaud, Why Not Productions.
Director Jacques-Audiard. Photo: Eponine Momenceau. Courtesy of Mongrel Media.
Jesuthasan Antonythasan (Dheepan), Claudine Vinasithamby (Illayaal) reading the newspaper in Jacques Audiard’s DHEEPAN. Courtesy of Paul Arnaud.
Jesuthasan Antonythasan (Dheepan) behind the car in Jaques Audiard’s DHEEPAN. Courtesy of Paul Arnaud.
Kalieaswari Srinivasan (Yalini) and Vincent Rottiers (Brahim) in Jacques Audiard’s DHEEPAN. Courtesy of Paul Arnaud.
Dheepan
Jesuthasan Antonythasan (Dheepan), Claudine Vinasithamby (Illayaal) reading the newspaper in Jacques Audiard’s DHEEPAN. Courtesy of Paul Arnaud.
Jesuthasan Antonythasan (Dheepan) behind the car in Jaques Audiard’s DHEEPAN. Courtesy of Paul Arnaud.
Kalieaswari Srinivasan (Yalini) and Vincent Rottiers (Brahim) in Jacques Audiard’s DHEEPAN. Courtesy of Paul Arnaud.
