Dheepan
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.
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- High-definition digital master, supervised by director Jacques Audiard and cinematographer Éponine Momenceau, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary from 2015 featuring Audiard and coscreenwriter Noé Debré
- New interview with Audiard
- New interview with actor Antonythasan Jesuthasan
- Deleted scenes with audio commentary from 2015 by Audiard and Debré
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Atkinson
New cover by Matt Rota
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- High-definition digital master, supervised by director Jacques Audiard and cinematographer Éponine Momenceau, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary from 2015 featuring Audiard and coscreenwriter Noé Debré
- New interview with Audiard
- New interview with actor Antonythasan Jesuthasan
- Deleted scenes with audio commentary from 2015 by Audiard and Debré
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Atkinson
New cover by Matt Rota
Cast
- Antonythasan Jesuthasan
- Dheepan
- Kalieaswari Srinivasan
- Yalini
- Claudine Vinasithamby
- Illayaal
- Vincent Rottiers
- Brahim
- Marc Zinga
- Youssouf
- Faouzi Bensaïdi
- Monsieur Habib
- Nathan Anthonypillai
- Interpreter
- Bass Dhem
- Azziz
- Vasanth Selvam
- Colonel Cheran
Credits
- Director
- Jacques Audiard
- Screenplay by
- Noé Debré
- Screenplay by
- Thomas Bidegain
- Screenplay by
- Jacques Audiard
- Director of photography
- Éponine Momenceau
- Editor
- Juliette Welfling
- Music by
- Nicolas Jaar
- Production design by
- Michel Barthélémy
- Artistic collaboration by
- Héléna Klotz
- Costume design by
- Chattoune
Trailer for Dheepan
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