#871: AUDIARD, Jacques: Dheepan (2015)
AUDIARD, Jacques (France)
Dheepan [2015]
Spine #871
DVD
114 minutes
The Film
The Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by critic Michael Atkinson.
Commentary
From 2015 featuring Audiard and coscreenwriter Debré.
Interview 1
With Audiard.
Interview 2
Dheepan [2015]
Spine #871
DVD
With this Palme d'Or-winning drama, which deftly combines seemingly disparate genres, French filmmaker Jacques Audiard cemented his status as a titan of contemporary world cinema. In an arresting performance, the nonprofessional actor Antonythasan Jesuthasan (himself a former child soldier) stars as a Tamil fighter who, along with a woman and a child posing as his wife and daughter, flees war-torn Sri Lanka only to land in a Paris suburb blighted by drugs. As the makeshift family embarks on a new life, Dheepan settles into an intimate social-realist mode before tightening into a dynamic turf-war thriller, as well as an unsettling study of the psychological aftereffects of combat. Searing and sensitive, Audiard's film is a unique depiction of the refugee experience as a continuous crisis of identity.
114 minutes
Color
5.1 Surround
in Tamil and French
2:40:1 aspect ratio
5.1 Surround
in Tamil and French
2:40:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2017
Director/Writers
Audiard was 63 when he directed Dheepan.
The Film
A
Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by critic Michael Atkinson.
Commentary
From 2015 featuring Audiard and coscreenwriter Debré.
Interview 1
With Audiard.
Interview 2
With actor Jesuthasan.
Deleted scenes
With audio commentary from 2015 by Audiard and Debré.
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