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
Is it ever truly possible to escape one’s past? Can you really alter the course of your life and begin again, fresh and brand new? Does despair and violence stick to your soul, much like gum on the bottom of your shoe (the Warrens used this metaphor to great effect in the original Conjuring when talking about demonic presences)? Many films have pondered this questions over the years, everything from Straw Dogs to First Blood to The Unforgiven. This new work adds a few twists to this idea, including culture clashes, and living a lie in order to deceive the authorities. At the story’s center is a desperate stranger in a strange land, a man named Dheepan.
The story begins at an ending, the ending of the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka. After torching a pile of bodies, one tired Tamir fighter takes off his “camo” and...
The story begins at an ending, the ending of the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka. After torching a pile of bodies, one tired Tamir fighter takes off his “camo” and...
- 6/17/2016
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
As we head ever closer to this year’s Cannes Film Festival (one of the most intriguing lineups in a handful of years, I will add), the 2015 Cannes lineup feels like a distant memory. However, arguably the festival’s biggest debut, winner of its highest prize the Palme d’Or, is finally arriving in theaters stateside.
Entitled Dheepan, this Tamil-language drama comes from beloved filmmaker Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) and shocked the festival last year by stealing the biggest prize seemingly out of nowhere. The most prestigious of awards on the festival circuit, the Palme d’Or brings with it not just expectations but expectations of greatness that few films have the ability to live up to. But thankfully, decide a problematic final sequence, Audiard’s film does exactly that.
Again, a Tamil-language picture, Dheepan introduces us to a man who will take on the identity of “Dheepan” (played brilliantly...
Entitled Dheepan, this Tamil-language drama comes from beloved filmmaker Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) and shocked the festival last year by stealing the biggest prize seemingly out of nowhere. The most prestigious of awards on the festival circuit, the Palme d’Or brings with it not just expectations but expectations of greatness that few films have the ability to live up to. But thankfully, decide a problematic final sequence, Audiard’s film does exactly that.
Again, a Tamil-language picture, Dheepan introduces us to a man who will take on the identity of “Dheepan” (played brilliantly...
- 5/8/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Dheepan Sundance Selects Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B+ Director: Jacques Audiard Written by: Noé Debré, Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard Cast: Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers, Marc Zinga Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 4/18/16 Opens: May 6, 2016 Jacques Audiard may not have gone a giant step further with “Dheepan” than he did with the searing “Un prophèt,” which finds a teen French-Arab man trying to find his way in a jail beset with gang violence between Corsicans and Muslims, but he comes close enough. “Dheepan,” which is named for the principal character Dheepan Sivadhasan (Antonythasan Jesuthasan), may deal with the aftermath of a civil war [ Read More ]
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- 5/2/2016
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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
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
Chicago – As the 2015 edition of the 51st Chicago International Film Festival kicks into gear, the first week highlights include many award winning and international film offerings. All screenings are taking place at the AMC River North 21, 322 Illinois Street, Chicago, and the festival runs through October 29th.
HollywoodChicago.com contributors Brendan Hodges and Patrick McDonald have been sampling the festival offerings, and provides this preview to cover the first six days of the event. Over 50 countries are represented, and many of the films from the U.S. will be Oscar contenders. Each capsule is designated with Bh (Brendan) or Pm (Patrick), to indicate the author.
“Dheepan”
’Dheepan,’ Directed by Jacques Audiard
Photo credit: Chicago International Film Festival
A startling story of social displacement and the inevitability of violence, Jacques Audiard’s “Dheepan” won the Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. “Dheepan” tells a story about a three Sri Lankan...
HollywoodChicago.com contributors Brendan Hodges and Patrick McDonald have been sampling the festival offerings, and provides this preview to cover the first six days of the event. Over 50 countries are represented, and many of the films from the U.S. will be Oscar contenders. Each capsule is designated with Bh (Brendan) or Pm (Patrick), to indicate the author.
“Dheepan”
’Dheepan,’ Directed by Jacques Audiard
Photo credit: Chicago International Film Festival
A startling story of social displacement and the inevitability of violence, Jacques Audiard’s “Dheepan” won the Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. “Dheepan” tells a story about a three Sri Lankan...
- 10/18/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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
This is a capsule review. A full review will be posted closer to release.
The winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Jacques Audiard’s earthily sumptuous and deeply felt Dheepan has only gained resonance since premiering back in May. The tale of three refugees posing as a family in order to gain asylum is revealing and sympathetic to both the plight of those affected by Sri Lanka’s civil war, and the occupants of France’s government housing projects. Dheepan’s warmth and empathy are undeniably powerful, but some narrative choices complicate those feelings significantly.
Much of the best storytelling in Dheepan is done visually. The film’s title refers to the adopted name of Antonythasan Jesuthasan’s ex-Tamil Tiger, once he, Yalani (Kalieaswari Srinivasan), and orphaned 9-year-old Illayaal (Claudine Vinasithamby) immigrate to France using stolen passports. Moving into a squalid, crime-ridden apartment complex,...
The winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Jacques Audiard’s earthily sumptuous and deeply felt Dheepan has only gained resonance since premiering back in May. The tale of three refugees posing as a family in order to gain asylum is revealing and sympathetic to both the plight of those affected by Sri Lanka’s civil war, and the occupants of France’s government housing projects. Dheepan’s warmth and empathy are undeniably powerful, but some narrative choices complicate those feelings significantly.
Much of the best storytelling in Dheepan is done visually. The film’s title refers to the adopted name of Antonythasan Jesuthasan’s ex-Tamil Tiger, once he, Yalani (Kalieaswari Srinivasan), and orphaned 9-year-old Illayaal (Claudine Vinasithamby) immigrate to France using stolen passports. Moving into a squalid, crime-ridden apartment complex,...
- 9/11/2015
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
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
A master at capturing the intense emotional turmoil of seemingly ordinary people, the films of director Jacques Audiard ("A Prophet," "Rust And Bone") are not for the faint-hearted. But this year, the jury at Cannes were with him every step of the way, awarding his latest "Dheepan" with the Palme d'Or. And while it lacks English subtitles or dialogue, the first international trailer for the film still conveys the power it packs. Starring Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby), Vincent Rottiers, and Antonythasan Jesuthasan, the story follows a Tamil freedom fighter who comes to Europe, forms a makeshift family, and claims asylum. However, further violence in the Parisian slums forces him to make a stand. And all told, this looks like another knockout from Audiard, with our critic in Cannes calling the picture, "absolutely terrific." "Dheepan" opens in France on August 26th. Sundance Selects will...
- 7/22/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
★★★☆☆ 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
We’ll be better able to assess whether this Jacques Audiard’s seventh feature film was triumphant, faltered or flatlined when more results trickle in, but for the time being this looks to situate itself quality-wise underneath 2009’s Grand Prix winning A Prophet. It got his Cannes debut back in 1994 with Regarde Les Hommes Tomber in the Critics’ Week, saw 1996’s Un héros très discret land him Best Screenplay, and his last showing was for Rust & Bone in 2012. Starring relative unknowns in Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan and Claudine Vinasithamby, (supporting players also include Vincent Rottiers and Marc Zinga), Dheepan has all the earmarks from his other films: the immigrant story, criminal underpinnings, protagonist with odds against them, Paris, a visceral photography and on the tech side: a continued partnership with co-writer Thomas Bidegain. Make sure to click on the chart below for a larger version.
- 5/21/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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