Dheepan

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Dheepan
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Jacques Audiard
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  • Pascal Caucheteux
  • Jacques Audiard (uncredited)
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  • Jacques Audiard
  • Thomas Bidegain
  • Noé Debré
Starring Antonythasan Jesuthasan
Music by Nicolas Jaar
Cinematography Eponine Momenceau
Edited by Juliette Welfling
Production
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Distributed by UGC Distribution
Release dates
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  • 21 May 2015 (2015-05-21) (Cannes)
  • 26 August 2015 (2015-08-26) (France)
Running time
 115 minutes[1]
Country France
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  • Tamil
  • French
  • English[2]
Budget €8 million[3]
Box office $4.9 million[4]

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.[5] Featuring novelist and former Tamil Tiger child soldier Antonythasan Jesuthasan in the lead role, the film tells the story of three Tamil refugees who flee the civil war-ravaged Sri Lanka and come to France, in the hope of reconstructing their lives.[2][6]

The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It was shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[7]

Plot

Sivadhasan is a Tamil Tiger soldier during the last days of the Sri Lankan Civil War. After the armed conflict resolves, his side loses and he is forced to move to a refugee camp. There he decides to move to France to take a fresh chance at life. However, in order to secure political asylum, he requires a convincing cover story. He is given the passport of a dead man, Dheepan, and pairs with people he barely knows posing as his family. Along with his supposed wife, Yalini and his supposed 9-year-old daughter, Illayaal, they get on a ship bound for Paris. Upon arrival, he lands a job as a resident caretaker and starts building a new life in a housing project in Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, a northeastern suburb of Paris, which turns out to be another conflict zone for him.

Cast

Release

Box office

Dheepan opened in France on 28 August 2015. The film grossed $3,882,022 in France and $999,774 elsewhere for a worldwide total of $4,881,796.[4]

Critical reception

The film received largely positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 90% rating based on 62 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The site's consensus reads, "Dheepan offers a timely, powerful look at the modern immigrant experience in Europe.".[8] Metacritic reports a 77 out of 100 rating, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[9]

Director and stars at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[10][11][12] After winning the award, Audiard said "To receive a prize from the Coen brothers is something pretty exceptional. I'm very touched".[13]

According to critic Andrew Pulver, the film "may not be the director’s most immediately electrifying film, but in its understated way, it’s an immensely powerful work".[14] Commenting on the film, critic Jason Gorber notes that besides depicting immigrant experiences and integration, the film "is polemical without being didactic, and its message about human spirit and how connections of love can flourish in the most astonishing of ways is extremely moving".[15] The Independent called it "a radical and astonishing film that turns conventional thinking about immigrants on its head".[16]

Accolades

Award / Film Festival Category Recipients and nominees Result
Cannes Film Festival[7] Palme d'Or Jacques Audiard Won
César Awards[17] Best Film Nominated
Best Director Jacques Audiard Nominated
Best Actor Antonythasan Jesuthasan Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Vincent Rottiers Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain and Noé Debré Nominated
Best Cinematography Eponine Momenceau Nominated
Best Editing Juliette Welfling Nominated
Best Sound Daniel Sobrino, Valérie Deloof and Cyril Holtz Nominated
Best Production Design Michel Barthélémy Nominated
Lumières Awards[18] Best Film Nominated
Best Director Jacques Audiard Nominated
Magritte Awards[19] Best Supporting Actor Marc Zinga Nominated
Miami International Film Festival[20] Grand Jury Prize Won
Online Film Critics Society Awards[21] Best Non-U.S. Release Won

References

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