Thursday 11 January 2024 - The non-professional actor Antonythasan Jesuthasan (a former child soldier himself) 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 intimate social-realist mode before transforming 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.
Length: 1hr 49 mins
The film is presented in French and Tamil with English subtitles. - 24 Spadina Rd, Toronto, ON M5R 2S7, Canada -
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