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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 former Tamil Tiger soldier who flees to France with a fake family and becomes a caretaker in a violent suburb. The film, directed by Jacques Audiard, won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and explores the challenges of immigration and integration.
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- Crime, Drama
- Jacques Audiard
- 2016-05-13
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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Sep 14, 2015 · Once in Paris, this "family" struggles along, living in one shelter after another until Dheepan gets a caretaker's job in a housing project on the outskirts of the city. Dheepan hopes to build...
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- Unifrance
Watch Dheepan | Netflix. A Tamil soldier and two refugees flee civil war in Sri Lanka, but find a whole new set of crises when they attempt to start a new life in Paris. Watch trailers & learn more.
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...
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After last week’s Victoria — a young Spanish woman’s ordeal by innocence in a Berlin crime world — in Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan a Tamil refugee, fleeing war, comes to Paris.
