Dheepan

Three Sri Lankan refugees passing as a family try to restart their lives outside of Paris.

2891d ago

Considering the impeccable fluidity and narrative clarity of what came before, the last half-hour of Dheepan does appear distractingly messy.

2891d ago

Considering the impeccable fluidity and narrative clarity of what came before, the last half-hour of Dheepan does appear distractingly messy.

2891d ago

Director of “A Prophet” captures the turbulent world of crime-ridden Parisian neighborhoods in this gripping, superbly acted tale of Sri Lankan refugees posing as a family.

2891d ago

Considering the impeccable fluidity and narrative clarity of what came before, the last half-hour of Dheepan does appear distractingly messy.

2891d ago

[Mr. Audiard] makes popcorn movies disguised as art films, and vice versa. Dheepan is a bit like a Liam Neeson revenge-dad action thriller directed by the Dardenne brothers. I mean that in the best possible way.

2891d ago

Director of “A Prophet” captures the turbulent world of crime-ridden Parisian neighborhoods in this gripping, superbly acted tale of Sri Lankan refugees posing as a family.

2891d ago

[Mr. Audiard] makes popcorn movies disguised as art films, and vice versa. Dheepan is a bit like a Liam Neeson revenge-dad action thriller directed by the Dardenne brothers. I mean that in the best possible way.

2891d ago

Considering the impeccable fluidity and narrative clarity of what came before, the last half-hour of Dheepan does appear distractingly messy.

2891d ago

Director of “A Prophet” captures the turbulent world of crime-ridden Parisian neighborhoods in this gripping, superbly acted tale of Sri Lankan refugees posing as a family.

2891d ago

[Mr. Audiard] makes popcorn movies disguised as art films, and vice versa. Dheepan is a bit like a Liam Neeson revenge-dad action thriller directed by the Dardenne brothers. I mean that in the best possible way.

2891d ago

[Mr. Audiard] makes popcorn movies disguised as art films, and vice versa. Dheepan is a bit like a Liam Neeson revenge-dad action thriller directed by the Dardenne brothers. I mean that in the best possible way.

2891d ago

Director of “A Prophet” captures the turbulent world of crime-ridden Parisian neighborhoods in this gripping, superbly acted tale of Sri Lankan refugees posing as a family.

2891d ago

There’s no doubt that Audiard has invested a story of grief, dispossession and desire with immediate, almost tactile, urgency. Like the best fiction, it takes the most incomprehensible stories of our time and makes them hauntingly, inescapably clear.

2891d ago

There’s no doubt that Audiard has invested a story of grief, dispossession and desire with immediate, almost tactile, urgency. Like the best fiction, it takes the most incomprehensible stories of our time and makes them hauntingly, inescapably clear.

2891d ago

There’s no doubt that Audiard has invested a story of grief, dispossession and desire with immediate, almost tactile, urgency. Like the best fiction, it takes the most incomprehensible stories of our time and makes them hauntingly, inescapably clear.

2891d ago

There’s no doubt that Audiard has invested a story of grief, dispossession and desire with immediate, almost tactile, urgency. Like the best fiction, it takes the most incomprehensible stories of our time and makes them hauntingly, inescapably clear.

2891d ago

Immigrants' story of survival, assimilation, and alienation.

2891d ago

Immigrants' story of survival, assimilation, and alienation.

2891d ago

Immigrants' story of survival, assimilation, and alienation.

2891d ago

Immigrants' story of survival, assimilation, and alienation.

2891d ago

Following 'A Prophet' and 'Rust and Bone,' Jacques Audiard delivers another distinctive drama with this portrait of a family forged out of necessity, trading one war for another.

2891d ago

Following 'A Prophet' and 'Rust and Bone,' Jacques Audiard delivers another distinctive drama with this portrait of a family forged out of necessity, trading one war for another.

2891d ago

Not much has been heard from Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan since it won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. But going into this understated film cold isn’t a bad way to experience it, for it thrives on uncertainty.

2891d ago

Former Sri Lankan Civil War fighter Sivadhasan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) is forced into the life of a refugee by the Tamil Tigers’ defeat. But Paris turns out not to be the hospitable new home he might have hoped for.

2891d ago

Dheepan 'digs into your soul'

2891d ago

The new film from Rust and Bone director Jacques Audiard has a former fighter in the Sri Lankan civil war trying to make a new life in France with a fake family.

2891d ago

Former Sri Lankan Civil War fighter Sivadhasan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) is forced into the life of a refugee by the Tamil Tigers’ defeat. But Paris turns out not to be the hospitable new home he might have hoped for.

2891d ago

Former Sri Lankan Civil War fighter Sivadhasan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) is forced into the life of a refugee by the Tamil Tigers’ defeat. But Paris turns out not to be the hospitable new home he might have hoped for.

2891d ago

Dheepan 'digs into your soul'

2891d ago

Not much has been heard from Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan since it won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. But going into this understated film cold isn’t a bad way to experience it, for it thrives on uncertainty.

2891d ago

Following 'A Prophet' and 'Rust and Bone,' Jacques Audiard delivers another distinctive drama with this portrait of a family forged out of necessity, trading one war for another.

2891d ago

Not much has been heard from Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan since it won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. But going into this understated film cold isn’t a bad way to experience it, for it thrives on uncertainty.

2891d ago

The new film from Rust and Bone director Jacques Audiard has a former fighter in the Sri Lankan civil war trying to make a new life in France with a fake family.

2891d ago

Following 'A Prophet' and 'Rust and Bone,' Jacques Audiard delivers another distinctive drama with this portrait of a family forged out of necessity, trading one war for another.

2891d ago

The new film from Rust and Bone director Jacques Audiard has a former fighter in the Sri Lankan civil war trying to make a new life in France with a fake family.

2891d ago

Dheepan 'digs into your soul'

2891d ago

Former Sri Lankan Civil War fighter Sivadhasan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) is forced into the life of a refugee by the Tamil Tigers’ defeat. But Paris turns out not to be the hospitable new home he might have hoped for.

2891d ago

Not much has been heard from Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan since it won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. But going into this understated film cold isn’t a bad way to experience it, for it thrives on uncertainty.

2891d ago

Dheepan 'digs into your soul'

2891d ago

The new film from Rust and Bone director Jacques Audiard has a former fighter in the Sri Lankan civil war trying to make a new life in France with a fake family.

2891d ago

"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.

2891d ago

Director Jacques Audiard’s story of three unrelated refugees posing as a family in order to enter France won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.

2891d ago

"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.

2891d ago

Director Jacques Audiard’s story of three unrelated refugees posing as a family in order to enter France won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.

2891d ago

Director Jacques Audiard’s story of three unrelated refugees posing as a family in order to enter France won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.

2891d ago

Director Jacques Audiard’s story of three unrelated refugees posing as a family in order to enter France won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.

2891d ago

"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.

2891d ago

"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.

2891d ago

Until things devolve into a stormy conclusion, Dheepan is a sharply observed drama about identity and separation, strangeness and commonalities, and making do while hoping for something better.

2891d ago

Until things devolve into a stormy conclusion, Dheepan is a sharply observed drama about identity and separation, strangeness and commonalities, and making do while hoping for something better.

2891d ago

Jacques Audiard charts the lives of three Sri Lankan refugees in Paris in a well-acted and gripping but finally overwrought immigrant drama.

2891d ago

Until things devolve into a stormy conclusion, Dheepan is a sharply observed drama about identity and separation, strangeness and commonalities, and making do while hoping for something better.

2891d ago

Jacques Audiard charts the lives of three Sri Lankan refugees in Paris in a well-acted and gripping but finally overwrought immigrant drama.

2891d ago

Until things devolve into a stormy conclusion, Dheepan is a sharply observed drama about identity and separation, strangeness and commonalities, and making do while hoping for something better.

2891d ago

Jacques Audiard charts the lives of three Sri Lankan refugees in Paris in a well-acted and gripping but finally overwrought immigrant drama.

2891d ago

Jacques Audiard charts the lives of three Sri Lankan refugees in Paris in a well-acted and gripping but finally overwrought immigrant drama.

2891d ago

Cannes winner Dheepan is a bad Taxi Driver wannabe in disguise.

2891d ago

Cannes winner Dheepan is a bad Taxi Driver wannabe in disguise.

2891d ago

Cannes winner Dheepan is a bad Taxi Driver wannabe in disguise.

2891d ago

Cannes winner Dheepan is a bad Taxi Driver wannabe in disguise.

2891d ago

Jacques Audiard’s film struggles to overcome the burden of its over-simplified, moralizing setup.

2891d ago

Jacques Audiard’s film struggles to overcome the burden of its over-simplified, moralizing setup.

2891d ago

Jacques Audiard’s film struggles to overcome the burden of its over-simplified, moralizing setup.

2891d ago

Jacques Audiard’s film struggles to overcome the burden of its over-simplified, moralizing setup.

2891d ago