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Dheepan

Crime · Drama

Dheepan

When the war continues to rage in your heart and mind

6.8(531) 8/26/2015 1h 55m
CrimeDrama

Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.

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Antonythasan Jesuthasan

Antonythasan Jesuthasan

Dheepan

Kalieaswari Srinivasan

Kalieaswari Srinivasan

Yalini

Claudine Vinasithamby

Claudine Vinasithamby

Illayaal

Vincent Rottiers

Vincent Rottiers

Brahim

Marc Zinga

Marc Zinga

Youssouf

Faouzi Bensaïdi

Faouzi Bensaïdi

Monsieur Habib

Bass Dhem

Bass Dhem

Azziz

Franck Falise

Franck Falise

Hall C Guard

Directed by

Jacques Audiard

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Reviews

Reno

8/10

12/4/2016

**Far from the home, but the trouble's not over.** The renowned French filmmaker, Jacques Audiard back with this new sensational film. This time he has chosen to tell us the story of a Sri Lankan Tamil Eelam freedom fighter who had fled to France after the war, followed by his struggles in the new place. The entire film was in Tamil language, but there some French dialogues too. I have been waiting for this, even after I got many opportunities, I had postponed them for some reasons. Finally, I'm very happy for not just got over it, but for the film that has powerful contents to give a peek into the immigrant's lifestyle, I mean not in a pleasant way. Right now it is a huge issue around the world to curb the immigration, especially the illegal ones. But some reasons are really heartbr

CinemaSerf

7/10

4/6/2024

More like out of the "Dheepan" and into the fire! He (Jesuthasan Anthonythasan) is a Tamil separatist on Sri Lanka who is having to come to terms with the fact that their cause is lost. Fearing persecution, he decides to head to France where he can claim asylum. Along the way, he encounters "Yalini" (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and her daughter "Illayaal" (Claudine Visasithamby) and concluding that all would do better if they claimed to be a family, try to seek safety. Oddly enough, their lack of French language skills and papers doesn't seem to inhibit their arrival in France, but the reward for their efforts is his care-taking work in a block of flats in a lawless Parisian suburb where there seems little evidence of police to patrol the streets run by heavily armed gangs of youths. His job a

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