New York’s Public Theater announced its upcoming season at their Astor Place home as well as Central Park’s to-be-reopened Delacorte Theater where the Public will stage Twelfth Night, directed by Saheem Ali, in summer 2025.
In its 2024-25 season, the Public will feature productions by playwrights Caryl Churchill, Lisa Sanaye Dring, David Finnigan, James Ijames, John Purugganan and S. Shakthidharan. The line-up will include partnerships with theater companies Belvoir St Theatre, Kurinji, and NYU Skirball; Elevator Repair Service; and Ma-Yi Theatre Company and La Jolla Playhouse.
See the entire line-up below.
“In my 20th season at The Public Theater, I’m overjoyed to share programming that is as bold and ambitious as The Public’s mission,” said Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, adding, “The season finishes with the reopening of The Delacorte Theater. We’re counting down the minutes until we can celebrate our revitalized home with a joyful production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
In its 2024-25 season, the Public will feature productions by playwrights Caryl Churchill, Lisa Sanaye Dring, David Finnigan, James Ijames, John Purugganan and S. Shakthidharan. The line-up will include partnerships with theater companies Belvoir St Theatre, Kurinji, and NYU Skirball; Elevator Repair Service; and Ma-Yi Theatre Company and La Jolla Playhouse.
See the entire line-up below.
“In my 20th season at The Public Theater, I’m overjoyed to share programming that is as bold and ambitious as The Public’s mission,” said Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, adding, “The season finishes with the reopening of The Delacorte Theater. We’re counting down the minutes until we can celebrate our revitalized home with a joyful production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
- 5/7/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the best traits of cinema is its way of showing areas of our world most of us had never heard before or thought about, the way the director presents them. In our live, when we are surrounded by the sheer never-ending noise which is modernity, it is sadly easy to forget about the other perspective which is often right around the corner. For his graduation project at Austin film school, director Sachin Dheeraj Mudigonda researched the real life stories of immigrant workers, most of them coming from India, who work at the coastal area in Texas and rural parts of New Jersey. What he found was a world defined by exploitation, violence, but also the will to resist those who have brought them to this country under false pretense.
Men in Blue screened at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
After hurricane Katrina, many Indian workers have come...
Men in Blue screened at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
After hurricane Katrina, many Indian workers have come...
- 10/24/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Last week we got the first set of titles that will (for the most part) premiere at the 2022 San Sebastián International Film Festival. Earlier today, the Donostia folks lassoed thirteen films for their New Directors section. They include projects that we’ve been keeping an eye out on for a good stretch including Laura Baumeister‘s Daughter of Rage – a social issue drama that has taken its sweet time in post (there might be some Efx elements). We also find Dinara Drukarova‘s Le Grand Marin – which was co-wrote with Raphaëlle Desplechin and sees Drukarova, Dylan Robert, Antonythasan Jesuthasan and Sam Louwyck in the book to film project set in Iceland.…...
- 7/28/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Casanova Last Love Trailers — Benoît Jacquot‘s Casanova Last Love / Dernier amour (2019) U.S. and French movie trailers have been released by Cohen Media Group. The Casanova, Last Love trailers stars Vincent Lindon, Stacy Martin, Valeria Golino, Julia Roy, Nancy Tate, Anna Cottis, Hayley Carmichael, Nathan Willcocks, Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Wolfgang Pissors, and Catherine [...]
Continue reading: Casanova, Last Love (2019) Movie Trailers: Vincent Lindon courts Stacy Martin in Benoît Jacquot’s Period-piece Film...
Continue reading: Casanova, Last Love (2019) Movie Trailers: Vincent Lindon courts Stacy Martin in Benoît Jacquot’s Period-piece Film...
- 6/24/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
The love story between a young transgender woman and an older married man can be a very interesting premise, but in “Roobha” these people are also Sri Lankan Tamil people living in Canada which adds a whole other level to the story. The struggles and riots and all the issues that are faced by the Sri Lankan Tamil people that led their immigration to western countries, however, their biases and stigmas stay the same.
“Roobha” is screening at London Indian Film Festival
Anthony (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) is a family man living with his wife, brother-in-law and kids. With scarce business in his bar and a smoking addiction that is threatening his heart, Anthony lives a life where the only positive notes of his life are his memories as a poet who wooed his love to be his wife. Roobha (Amrit Sandhu) frequents the bar and one thing and the other lead...
“Roobha” is screening at London Indian Film Festival
Anthony (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) is a family man living with his wife, brother-in-law and kids. With scarce business in his bar and a smoking addiction that is threatening his heart, Anthony lives a life where the only positive notes of his life are his memories as a poet who wooed his love to be his wife. Roobha (Amrit Sandhu) frequents the bar and one thing and the other lead...
- 6/15/2019
- by Jithin Mohan
- AsianMoviePulse
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Which films are coming to disc this festive season? What on Earth do I buy for [insert friend’s name here]? We’ve got the answers...
Christmas comes this time each year, and, purely by coincidence, a lot of DVDs and Blu-rays just so happen to be released at the same sort of time. They fit rather well in stockings, don’t they? How convenient!
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Which films are coming to disc this festive season? What on Earth do I buy for [insert friend’s name here]? We’ve got the answers...
Christmas comes this time each year, and, purely by coincidence, a lot of DVDs and Blu-rays just so happen to be released at the same sort of time. They fit rather well in stockings, don’t they? How convenient!
See related The Missing series 2: the writers on episode 5’s revelation The Missing series 2 episode 5 review: Das Vergessen The Missing series 2 episode 4 review: Statice The Missing series 2 episode 3 review: A Prison Without Walls
If, like me, you’ve a tendency to give and/or receive a few discs each yuletide, read on for our run-through of all the new goodies coming to home release formats this winter...
Out now Batman: Return Of The Caped Crusaders
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- 11/11/2016
- Den of Geek
Yalini (Kalieaswari Srinivasan), a Sri Lankan refugee working as a housekeeper in France, explains to Brahim (Vincent Rottiers), the drug kingpin of their neighborhood, that in her culture, a smile indicates understanding, expressing pain and happiness equally. The French, she says, think she is making fun of others or confused. The ability to communicate well with people close to you and the outside world is a central privilege identified in Dheepan, a capacity eluding its protagonists. The film is set during the Sri Lankan civil war (1983-2009), and the characters we come to know as Dheepan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan), Yalini, and the young Illayaal (Claudine Vinasithamby) were killed during the war. Our protagonists are assigned these identities and as a family unit, they emigrate to France. Illayaal is best at finding empathy in their situation, turning her trauma of being bullied at school and alienation at living with two adult strangers...
- 6/18/2016
- by Dina Paulson
- CinemaNerdz
Jacques Audiard’s bold tale of Tamil refugees attempting to make a new life in a Paris banlieue is let down only by a jarring conclusion
French director Jacques Audiard does things his own way: his latest film stars previously unknown leads from Sri Lanka and India, and is almost entirely in the Tamil language. Its boldness and its political will to shake up the introversion of the French film world were no doubt factors in its winning last year’s Palme d’Or in Cannes. It’s about a family of immigrants newly arrived in France – only they’re really strangers huddling under a flag of convenience to leave Sri Lanka and find a new life. Yalini (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) is a woman who enlists a young girl to play her daughter, while “husband” Dheepan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) is a militant with the recently defeated Tamil Tigers (the story is set...
French director Jacques Audiard does things his own way: his latest film stars previously unknown leads from Sri Lanka and India, and is almost entirely in the Tamil language. Its boldness and its political will to shake up the introversion of the French film world were no doubt factors in its winning last year’s Palme d’Or in Cannes. It’s about a family of immigrants newly arrived in France – only they’re really strangers huddling under a flag of convenience to leave Sri Lanka and find a new life. Yalini (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) is a woman who enlists a young girl to play her daughter, while “husband” Dheepan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) is a militant with the recently defeated Tamil Tigers (the story is set...
- 4/10/2016
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
Picking one of these most prestigious awards there is to win in cinema – the top prize at Cannes Film Festival, the Palme d’Or, it was a pleasure to sit down with the auteur behind the project, Jacques Audiard. The venerable filmmaker was sat besides his two leading stars, Kalieaswari Srinivasan and Jesuthasan Antonythasan – who
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- 4/5/2016
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
With an early taste of the upcoming summer movie season arriving with "Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice," and with "X-Men: Apocalypse" and "Captain America: Civil War" yet to come, you might feel the need for a cinematic palate cleanser somewhere in there. Well, how about a Palme d'Or winner? Read More: Cannes Review: Jacques Audiard's 'Dheepan' Is An Excellent, Searing & Compassionate Drama Starring Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers, and Marc Zinga, Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or winner tells the story of three Sri Lankans who pose as a family so they can start their lives over in France. However, the horrors of the past aren't soon forgotten, and emerge in some surprising ways as they try to find footing in their new home. Here's the official synopsis: Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter, a Tiger. In Sri Lanka, the Civil War is reaching its end,...
- 3/30/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
This is the Pure Movies review of Dheepan, directed by Jacques Audiard and starring Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby and Vincent Rottiers. Written by Dr. Garth Twa for Pure Movies. The world is cleaved by End-Of-Times fanaticism and Occupy global optimism, rock concert massacres and 2000-mile walls between countries, economic imperialism and regime-change refugees. We are polarised to a degree that is unprecedented: look no further for evidence than the preposterous ascension of Donald Trump’s clownocracy. Terrorism has changed the Free World irreparably, so much so that the epithet is hardly applicable any more. People are on the move and traditional borders, even the idea of borders, are disintegrating. Do we have a moral obligation to help people whose lives have been shattered or a civic duty to keep them out, you know, just in case? Jacques Audiard’s newest film, Dheepan (winner of the Palm D’Or...
- 3/22/2016
- by Dr. Garth Twa
- Pure Movies
Jacques Audiard has been on an incredible run since 2005's "The Beat That My Heart Skipped," releasing the powerful "A Prophet" in 2009, and following it with "Rust And Bone" in 2012. Last spring, he returned with "Dheepan," the Palme d'Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival, and after a lengthy journey on the festival circuit, it's finally coming to stateside cinemas. Read More: Cannes Review: Jacques Audiard's 'Dheepan' Is An Excellent, Searing & Compassionate Drama Starring Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers, and Marc Zinga, the story follows three refugees from Sri Lanka — a man, woman, and child — who pose as a family to gain entry to France and start a new life. However, they soon discover that life in their new home has its own unique set of threats, setting off series of events that only grow in intensity. Here's the official synopsis: Dheepan...
- 2/23/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Jacques Audiard's Tamil emigre drama "Dheepan," winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, thrusts us into the lives of Sri Lankan refugees who are posing as a family in the suburbs of Paris. It's there that the title character (Jesuthasan Antonythasan), Yalini (Klieaswari Srinivasan) and a nine-year-old orphan (Claudine Vinasithamby) discover that the violence they tried to outrun still hits close to home. For whatever reason, critical reaction was muted when the film stormed Cannes, despite taking the top prize from the Coen Brothers-led jury. Audiard ricochets (I say deftly) between B-genres, from western to melodrama, which he packs into a parable of globalization that builds to an ultra-violent conclusion. He's channeling Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs," and working with rookie actors including Atonythasan, who emerged late in the game as Audiard explained in our Los Angeles interview, below. Up for nine Cesars, "Dheepan" opens from.
- 2/9/2016
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Dheepan Trailer and Poster. Jacques Audiard‘s Dheepan (2015) movie trailer stars Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan and Claudine Vinasithamby. Dheepan‘s plot synopsis: “Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.” According to FirstShowing, “Transmission Films in the UK has debuted a trailer for Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan, which won the Palme […]...
- 1/14/2016
- by Marco Margaritoff
- Film-Book
"Lord Ganesh, spare us misfortune, make things go well here." Transmission Films in the UK has debuted a trailer for Jacques Audiard's Dheepan, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival last year (2015). The film is slated for release in the Us this April, but for now this trailer comes from the UK and shares footage from what some are calling a masterpiece. Jesuthasan Antonythasan stars as Dheepan, a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees their Civil War, ending up France. He takes two strangers with him and they struggle to make a home in a housing project outside Paris. This looks better then many are expecting, so I hope people give it a chance and watch this. Audiard is an exceptional filmmaker, and always impresses. Here's the official international trailer for Jacques Audiard's Dheepan, from Transmission's YouTube: Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who...
- 1/13/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Dheepan
Directed by Jacques Audiard
France, 2015
Philadelphia Film Festival
Dheepan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) is a Tamil fighter. He flees war-torn Sri Lanka with Yalini (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and Illayaal (Claudine Vinasithamby), posing as his wife and daughter. The makeshift family arrives in France and Dheepan finds work as a caretaker for an apartment building that is also a drug front.
Jacques Audiard’s follow-up to Rust and Bone took home the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Dheepan thrives on silence. A nearly wordless opening showing the eponymous character’s tragic departure, the desperate meeting of Dheepan, Yalini, and Illayaal, and the voyage west is particularly effective. Audiard jumps smoothly through time and forces the audience to catch up with only the barest context, producing a beautifully mysterious prologue.
The director gets phenomenal performances from the three leads, who are all essentially non-actors (Antonythasan has one other credit...
Directed by Jacques Audiard
France, 2015
Philadelphia Film Festival
Dheepan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) is a Tamil fighter. He flees war-torn Sri Lanka with Yalini (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and Illayaal (Claudine Vinasithamby), posing as his wife and daughter. The makeshift family arrives in France and Dheepan finds work as a caretaker for an apartment building that is also a drug front.
Jacques Audiard’s follow-up to Rust and Bone took home the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Dheepan thrives on silence. A nearly wordless opening showing the eponymous character’s tragic departure, the desperate meeting of Dheepan, Yalini, and Illayaal, and the voyage west is particularly effective. Audiard jumps smoothly through time and forces the audience to catch up with only the barest context, producing a beautifully mysterious prologue.
The director gets phenomenal performances from the three leads, who are all essentially non-actors (Antonythasan has one other credit...
- 11/3/2015
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
The American Film Institute announced today the films that will screen in the World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight, Shorts and Cinema’s Legacy programs at AFI Fest 2015 presented by Audi.
AFI Fest will take place November 5 – 12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood. Screenings, Galas and events will be held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, Dolby Theatre, the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, the El Capitan Theatre and The Hollywood Roosevelt.
World Cinema showcases the most acclaimed international films of the year; Breakthrough highlights true discoveries of the programming process; Midnight selections will grip audiences with terror; and Cinema’s Legacy highlights classic movies and films about cinema. World Cinema and Breakthrough selections are among the films eligible for Audience Awards. Shorts selections are eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which qualifies the winner for Academy Award®consideration. This year’s Shorts jury features filmmaker Janicza Bravo,...
AFI Fest will take place November 5 – 12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood. Screenings, Galas and events will be held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, Dolby Theatre, the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, the El Capitan Theatre and The Hollywood Roosevelt.
World Cinema showcases the most acclaimed international films of the year; Breakthrough highlights true discoveries of the programming process; Midnight selections will grip audiences with terror; and Cinema’s Legacy highlights classic movies and films about cinema. World Cinema and Breakthrough selections are among the films eligible for Audience Awards. Shorts selections are eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which qualifies the winner for Academy Award®consideration. This year’s Shorts jury features filmmaker Janicza Bravo,...
- 10/22/2015
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Festival favourite Mustang took the festival’s art cinema prize, while documentary Nice People won the audience award.
Festival favourite Mustang and the documentary feature Nice People were among the prize-winners at this year’s Filmfest Hamburg (October 1-10) which came to a close at the weekend with an awards ceremony before the German premiere of the Iranian film Paradise.
Turkish director Denize Gamze Ergüven’s debut Mustang – which premiered in Cannes this year - won the Cicae Art Cinema Award, including prize-money of $5,700 (€5,000) towards the promotion of the film’s German theatrical release next spring by Michael Kölmel’s Leipzig-based Weltkino Filmverleih.
Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion’s Alexander Ris and Jörg Rothe, the producer of Romanian director Radu Muntean’s One Floor Below, received the $28,400 (€25,000) Hamburg Producer Prize for European Cinema Co-Productions, while Romanian partner - Multimedia East - was awarded $17,000 (€15,000) worth of cinema grading by the Hamburg-based postproduction house.
After accepting...
Festival favourite Mustang and the documentary feature Nice People were among the prize-winners at this year’s Filmfest Hamburg (October 1-10) which came to a close at the weekend with an awards ceremony before the German premiere of the Iranian film Paradise.
Turkish director Denize Gamze Ergüven’s debut Mustang – which premiered in Cannes this year - won the Cicae Art Cinema Award, including prize-money of $5,700 (€5,000) towards the promotion of the film’s German theatrical release next spring by Michael Kölmel’s Leipzig-based Weltkino Filmverleih.
Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion’s Alexander Ris and Jörg Rothe, the producer of Romanian director Radu Muntean’s One Floor Below, received the $28,400 (€25,000) Hamburg Producer Prize for European Cinema Co-Productions, while Romanian partner - Multimedia East - was awarded $17,000 (€15,000) worth of cinema grading by the Hamburg-based postproduction house.
After accepting...
- 10/12/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
It's a family plot. At the start of Jacques Audiard's Tamil emigre drama "Dheepan," our title character (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) is thrust together with two strangers, young woman Yalini (Klieaswari Srinivasan) and a nine-year-old orphan she just collected at a Sri Lanka refugee camp (Claudine Vinasithamby) to form a makeshift, instant family unit. They are impersonating another dead trio, and take their passports in order to fly to Paris, where they are eventually settled as the caretakers of a rough gang-infested housing complex. All three are barely recovering from their battle scars and losses, while needing to survive in a foreign country with a language only the young school girl learns quickly. ("Don't all countries burn down schools?" the new parents ask each other after a confounding school entrance interview.) Audiard, a gracefully instinctive director, uses meticulously researched detail (the rookie actors are natural and believable) to...
- 9/11/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
2015’s Toronto International Film Festival, now in its 40th year, will kick off the fall festival season with their opening night film, Demolition, starring Jake Gyllenhaal in Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée’s follow-up to Dallas Buyers Club. Over 350 films are among this year’s festival.
Tiff 15’s list of Special Presentation is an incredible list of new films from Michael Moore (Where to Invade Next), Charlie Kaufmann (Anomalisa), Scott Cooper (Black Mass), Denis Villeneuve (Sicario), Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), Cary Fukunaga (Netflix’s Beasts of No Nation), and Jacques Audiard (Dheepan). Several of the titles were among this year’s Cannes lineup, including The Lobster, Youth, and Louder than Bombs.
Deepa Meetha’s Beeba Boys, Stephen Frears’s Lance Armstrong movie The Program, Freeheld, starring last year’s Oscar winner Julianne Moore alongside Ellen Page, Steve Carell, and Michael Shannon, Atom Egoyan’s Remember, and Brian Helgeland’s Tom Hardy...
Tiff 15’s list of Special Presentation is an incredible list of new films from Michael Moore (Where to Invade Next), Charlie Kaufmann (Anomalisa), Scott Cooper (Black Mass), Denis Villeneuve (Sicario), Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), Cary Fukunaga (Netflix’s Beasts of No Nation), and Jacques Audiard (Dheepan). Several of the titles were among this year’s Cannes lineup, including The Lobster, Youth, and Louder than Bombs.
Deepa Meetha’s Beeba Boys, Stephen Frears’s Lance Armstrong movie The Program, Freeheld, starring last year’s Oscar winner Julianne Moore alongside Ellen Page, Steve Carell, and Michael Shannon, Atom Egoyan’s Remember, and Brian Helgeland’s Tom Hardy...
- 7/28/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Sundance award-winner to open festival; Dagur Kári’s Tribeca winner Virgin Mountain to close.
Anna Muylaert’s The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?) is to open the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival on August 14.
Brazilian director Muylaert will be in attendance at Sarajevo’s impressive open air theatre for the screening of the film, in which the estranged daughter of a live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, breaking down unspoken class barriers that exist within the home.
The film debuted at Sundance in January where actors Regina Casé and Camila Márdila picked up the Special Jury Prize. It went on to win the Panorama Audience Award at Berlin in February and the jury prize for best screenplay at RiverRun.
Sarajevo has also announced that Dagur Kári’s Virgin Mountain (Fusi) will close the festival on August 22.
Kári will present the screening alongside lead actor Gunnar Jónsson, who plays a 43-year-old that still lives with his mother and whose monotonous...
Anna Muylaert’s The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?) is to open the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival on August 14.
Brazilian director Muylaert will be in attendance at Sarajevo’s impressive open air theatre for the screening of the film, in which the estranged daughter of a live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, breaking down unspoken class barriers that exist within the home.
The film debuted at Sundance in January where actors Regina Casé and Camila Márdila picked up the Special Jury Prize. It went on to win the Panorama Audience Award at Berlin in February and the jury prize for best screenplay at RiverRun.
Sarajevo has also announced that Dagur Kári’s Virgin Mountain (Fusi) will close the festival on August 22.
Kári will present the screening alongside lead actor Gunnar Jónsson, who plays a 43-year-old that still lives with his mother and whose monotonous...
- 7/27/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
With features such as The Beat That My Heart Skipped and Rust and Bone under his belt, filmmaker Jacques Audiard has garnered acclaim across various festivals over the course of his career. The Cannes Film Festival has been no different in this regard, as Audiard had been nominated three times for the Palme d’Or prior to the 2015 incarnation of the festival, for A Self-Made Hero, A Prophet, and Rust and Bone. The 2015 Festival, however, brought his first win, for Audiard’s newest feature Dheepan.
Audiard takes on both co-writing and directing duties for the film, with the three primary roles being notably played by relative newcomers. Jesuthasan Antonythasan, who plays the titular character, is appearing in only his second film, with co-stars Kalieaswari Srinivasan and Claudine Vinasithamby making their debuts in the feature. The synopsis is below.
Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and...
Audiard takes on both co-writing and directing duties for the film, with the three primary roles being notably played by relative newcomers. Jesuthasan Antonythasan, who plays the titular character, is appearing in only his second film, with co-stars Kalieaswari Srinivasan and Claudine Vinasithamby making their debuts in the feature. The synopsis is below.
Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and...
- 7/22/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
★★★☆☆ Following the impressive The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005), the excellent A Prophet (2010) and the melodramatic Rust and Bone (2012), Jacques Audiard returns to Cannes with Dheepan (2015), a mix of Loachian social realism and Death Wish-style violent fantasy. This outsider in Paris tale begins with a Tamil freedom fighter burning the bodies of his dead comrades and throwing his uniform into the fire. Disillusioned with the war he adopts the identity of one of the dead men, Dheepan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) and, with the help of the smuggler, recruits a young woman to pose as his wife (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and an orphaned child (Claudine Vinasithamby) to be their daughter.
- 5/31/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Dheepan won the Palme d’Or at the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival on Sunday night. The French film stars Jesuthasan Antonythasan as Dheepan, a former soldier from Sri Lanka who left his country in the midst of a civil war to escape to France. With him are a young woman, Yalini (Kalieaswari Srinivasan), and a […]
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- 5/25/2015
- by Olivia Truffaut
- Uinterview
After nearly two weeks of screenings, the 68th Cannes Film Festival has come to a close with this year's awards having now been handed out.
Jacques Audiard's "Dheepan" has taken the top prize of this year's Palme d’Or, a surprising choice considering reviews for the film were mixed. Jesuthasan Antonythasan stars in the film as a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker.
Laszlo Nemes' raved about "Son Of Saul" scored the second place Grand Prix award, whilst Yorgos Lanthimos' "The Lobster" took this year's Jury Prize. Also scoring honors were Rooney Mara ("Carol") and Emmanuelle Bercot ("Mon Roi") sharing a best actress win, and Vincent Lindon ("The Measure Of A Man") winning for best actor.
Hou Hsiao-hsien won best director for "The Assassin," Michel Franco took a best screenplay award for "Chronic," "La Tierra Y La Sombra" took the Camera d'Or,...
Jacques Audiard's "Dheepan" has taken the top prize of this year's Palme d’Or, a surprising choice considering reviews for the film were mixed. Jesuthasan Antonythasan stars in the film as a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker.
Laszlo Nemes' raved about "Son Of Saul" scored the second place Grand Prix award, whilst Yorgos Lanthimos' "The Lobster" took this year's Jury Prize. Also scoring honors were Rooney Mara ("Carol") and Emmanuelle Bercot ("Mon Roi") sharing a best actress win, and Vincent Lindon ("The Measure Of A Man") winning for best actor.
Hou Hsiao-hsien won best director for "The Assassin," Michel Franco took a best screenplay award for "Chronic," "La Tierra Y La Sombra" took the Camera d'Or,...
- 5/24/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Filmmaker Jacques Audiard first gained prominence in the international film community for his screenwriting capabilities, most notably winning the Best Screenplay award at the 1996 Cannes film festival for Un héros très discret, also known as A Self-Made Hero. Over the past decade, however, Audiard has also received acclaim for his directorial work, most notably for the 2009 feature Un prophète, also known as A Prophet, which went on to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film of the year. With his last feature coming in 2012, many were excited to learn that the filmmaker would be coming to the 2015 incarnation of the Cannes film festival once again with his latest feature.
Titled Dheepan, the film features newcomer Jesuthasan Antonythasan in the titular role, and the synopsis is as follows.
Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.
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Titled Dheepan, the film features newcomer Jesuthasan Antonythasan in the titular role, and the synopsis is as follows.
Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.
Ahead...
- 5/19/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
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