Dheepan

A quiet, tense story of displaced people trying to build a normal life while violence keeps closing in around them.

Directed by

Jacques Audiard

Genres

Crime, Drama

Starring

Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby

Tagline

When the war continues to rage in your heart and mind

Overview

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.

How it feels

Tense, bleak, melancholic and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Survival, isolation, family, violence

Content

Strong violence and gore. Mild sexual content and language.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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