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Dheepan: Directed by Jacques Audiard. With Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers. Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.
Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter, a Tiger. In Sri Lanka, the Civil War is reaching its end, and defeat is near. Dheepan decides to flee, taking with him two strangers - a woman and a little girl - hoping that they will make it easier for him to claim asylum in Europe.
One could hardly say anything less about Jacques Audiard's "Dheepan" (Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival). In the first place, the subject – immigration to Europe from war-torn places of the Third World – is so timely that the film almost acquires the character of a documentary.
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Dheepan. Vivaldi: Cum Dederit (Andante) Composed by Antonio Vivaldi. Performed by Andreas Scholl and Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Conducted by Paul Dyer. (p) 2000 Decca Music Group Limited. With the permission of /Avec L'Autorisation d'Universal Music Vision. MacCain.
The main storyline of the film concerns a Sri Lankan family, whereby the father is part of a militia group, who flee to France as immigrants to try and start a new life, as the one back home places them in constant life-threatening danger. However, when they arrive in France, they face new, unexpected problems which they have to cope with.
Release Date. France. May 21, 2015(Cannes Film Festival) Croatia. July 21, 2015(Pula Film Festival) Bosnia and Herzegovina. August 15, 2015(Sarajevo Film Festival) France. August 26, 2015.
Dheepan slowly begins to care more about Yalini and Illayal, but as his love for them grows, a commander of the army he was in while in the Sri Lankan civil war finds him and commands him to get guns for him. Dheepan refuses, and says the war is over for him, but he is then physically beat.
The Hollywood Reporter David Rooney. 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. 80. Empire.
Dheepan: Directed by Jacques Audiard. With Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers. Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.
