Dheepan (2015)
When the war continues to rage in your heart and mind
2015 · R · 1h 55m · Crime, Drama
Genres: Crime, Drama
Three 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.
Director: Jacques Audiard
Writers: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Noé Debré
Music by: Nicolas Jaar
Cinematography: Éponine Momenceau
Editor: Juliette Welfling
Box office: $8M · Rated 6.8/10 by 531 viewers
Cast
Antonythasan Jesuthasan as DheepanKalieaswari Srinivasan as YaliniClaudine Vinasithamby as IllayaalVincent Rottiers as BrahimMarc Zinga as YoussoufFaouzi Bensaïdi as Monsieur HabibBass Dhem as AzzizFranck Falise as Hall C GuardJoséphine de Meaux as School PrincipalJean-Baptiste Pouilloux as The LawyerNathan Anthonypillai as The InterpreterVasanth Selvam as Colonel CheranMore like this
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