Release Date: May 23, 2017
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Dheepan (2015)
Director: Jacques Audiard
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
Purchase Links:
Amazon - $25.05
Criterion - $31.96
Dheepan (2015)
Director: Jacques Audiard
- France
- 2015
- 114 minutes
- Color
- 2.35:1
- English, French, Tamil
- Spine #871
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
- 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
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