2015 · drama · crime · war
Dheepan
Directed by Jacques Audiard1h 55m2015
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.
Our read: Dheepan (2015) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · crime · war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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- intense
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