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Dheepan
Sign in to saveDheepan 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, as well as the 1971 film Straw Dogs, with guidance from Antonythasan Jesuthasan, who stars as the title character.
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*Dheepan* is a 2015 French drama and crime film directed by Jacques Audiard, who co-wrote the screenplay with Thomas Bidegain. The cast includes Marc Zinga, Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Vincent Rottiers, and Faouzi Bensaïdi. The narrative is set in Paris, and the film features dialogue in English, Tamil, and French. Pascal Caucheteux served as producer, while Juliette Welfling handled editing and Nicolas Jaar composed the music.
Produced by Why Not Productions, France 2 Cinéma, and Page 114, the film was released on August 26, 2015. It has a runtime of 115 minutes according to TMDb and IMDb, though Wikidata lists a duration of 109 minutes. The film received the Palme d'Or award. Distribution formats include video on demand through Netflix and Hulu. Review scores vary by platform, with IMDb listing a rating of 7.2 based on 17,982 votes, while other sources report scores of 7.7/10, 87%, and 76/100.
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Film · TMDB
6.9Three 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.
Cast
- Antonythasan Jesuthasan as Dheepan
- Kalieaswari Srinivasan as Yalini
- Claudine Vinasithamby as Illayaal
- Vincent Rottiers as Brahim
- Marc Zinga as Youssouf
- Faouzi Bensaïdi as Monsieur Habib
Themes
- paris, france
- freedom fighter
- sri lanka
- social realism
- drug gang
- war refugees
- dangerous neighborhood
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Dheepan
- Film.image
- Dheepan poster.jpg
- Film.caption
- Theatrical release poster
- Film.director
- Jacques Audiard
- Film.story
- Jacques Audiard Antonythasan Jesuthasan (uncredited)
- Film.starring
- Antonythasan Jesuthasan
- Film.music
- Nicolas Jaar
- Film.cinematography
- Eponine Momenceau
- Film.editing
- Juliette Welfling
- Film.distributor
- UGC Distribution
- Film.runtime
- 115 minutes
- Film.country
- France
- Film.budget
- €8 million
- Film.gross
- $4.9 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Award
- Palme d'Or
- Genre
- crime film
- Country of origin
- France
- Original language
- French
- Director
- Jacques Audiard
- Composer
- Nicolas Jaar
- Producer
- Pascal Caucheteux
- Narrative location
- Paris
- Duration
- 109
- FilmAffinity ID
- 177901
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 2015-10-22
- film editor
- Juliette Welfling
- title
- Dheepan
- distributed by
- Hulu
- review score
- 76/100
- Commons category
- Dheepan
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- Critical reception
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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, as well as the 1971 film Straw Dogs, with guidance from Antonythasan Jesuthasan, who stars as the title character.
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. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It was later shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
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