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Dheepan

2015

Jacques Audiard

Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers ...

6.7

4,307

Drama 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. They barely know one another, but try to build a life together.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"While the unhurried pace is challenging for a film with relatively little narrative incident, it's a pleasure to put yourself in the hands of such a confident director."	POS
United States	Oliver Lyttelton IndieWire	"This really is Audiard operating at the top of his game (...) and the result is certainly one of the highlights of the Cannes competition this year."	POS
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"[It] unfolds in solidly involving, carefully observed fashion for much of its running time, until it takes a sharp and heavy-handed turn into genre territory from which it never quite recovers."	NEU
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"Proceeds without flashy tricks or showy technique, offering the pleasures of captivating storytelling with an irresistible human pulse."	POS
United Kingdom	Andrew Pulver The Guardian	"This may not be the director's most immediately electrifying film, but in its understated way, it's an immensely powerful work. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS

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