Dheepan

Dheepan

DVD - 2017

To escape the civil war in Sri Lanka, a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl pose as a family. They end up settling in a housing project outside Paris. Even though they barely know one another, they try to build a life together.

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Subjects
Sri Lankans > France > Paris > Drama.
Refugees > France > Paris > Drama.
Immigrant families > France > Paris > Drama.
Criminal behavior > France > Paris > Drama.
Crime films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Crime films
Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection [2017]
[Irvington, N.Y.] : [2017]
Language
Tamil
French
English
Corporate Authors
Page 114 (Firm), Why Not Productions, France 2 cinéma (Firm), Studio Canal+, Ciné+ (France), France télévision
Corporate Authors
Page 114 (Firm) (production company), Why Not Productions, France 2 cinéma (Firm), Studio Canal+, Ciné+ (France), France télévision
Other Authors
Jacques Audiard (film director), Noé Debré, 1986- (screenwriter), Thomas Bidegain (composer expression), Nicolas Jaar, 1990- (actor), Ṣōpā Cakti, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers, Marc Zinga, 1984-
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition ; DVD edition. Director-approved DVD special edition
Item Description
Title from title frame.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2015.
Special features: Audio commentary from 2015 featuring director Jacques Audiard and co-screenwriter Noé Debré; New interview with Audiard; New interview with actor Antonythasan Jesuthasan; Deleted scenes with audio commentary by Audiard and Debré; Trailer; Plus, an essay by critic Michael Atkinson.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (114 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (2.40:1); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Production Credits
Director of photography, Éponine Momenceau ; editor, Juliette Welfling ; music, Nicolas Jaar ; production designer, Michel Barthelemy ; costumes, C. Bourrec, Chattoune.
ISBN
9781681433011
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

A soldier on the losing side of civil strife in Sri Lanka, Dheepan (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) joins with two other emigrants-a woman and an unrelated child-in posing as a family to ease their immigration into France. Language and cultural barriers, as well as living in a Paris housing complex rife with violent drug dealers, lead to a difficult adjustment even as the faux family make a go of acting like a real one. Jacques Audiard's (A Prophet) realistic drama steadily builds toward a Taxi Driver-like denouement in which roiling tensions explode in this Palme d'Or -winner. [See Trailers, LJ 4/1/17] © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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