Directed by:
Jacques AudiardCinematography:
Éponine MomenceauComposer:
Nicolas JaarCast:
Vincent Rottiers, Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Marc Zinga, Franck Falise, Sandra Murugiah, Jana Bittnerová (more)Plots(1)
From his childhood corrupted by the beer hall, pool parlor, and false friends, to his adulthood as a henchman of ruthless but innately decent bootlegger Paddy Ryan, Tom rises to the top of the heap, with all the accoutrements of success: custom-tailored tuxedoes, fancy cars, and gorgeous girls. But fate soon takes Tom down another path. Tommy's degeneration from brash kid to vicious lowlife is brought home in a famous scene in which he smashes a grapefruit in the face of his latest mistress (Mae Clarke). (StudioCanal UK)
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(BE2CAN, Evald) The last scene doesn’t belong there, it must have been a dream. Right? Right, right? Please!
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Audiard is, of course, a skilled filmmaker, and he proves it in many places, but otherwise Dheepan resembles a torso composed of many pressing humanistic themes, which are just outlined without working with them more systematically. The film therefore disintegrates in the middle in quite strange motivations and emotional twists. The finale is an evocation of Taxi Driver, but feels more like a frustrated Tamil Rambo from the suburbs of Paris. It strikes me as a clueless attempt at a commentary on contemporary geopolitics, which plays the most accessible string. In addition, the film is marked by the fact that it was finished under great pressure and feels as if certain parts are missing. The Palme d'Or in competition with Assassin and Saul fia is, in my view, a purely political decision. [Cannes 2015]
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A film where you just know it can't have a pleasant course. And that's exactly what Dheepan offers. A man from Sri Lanka, who fled because of the war, settles in Paris only to find out that violence simply cannot be avoided. Violence is everywhere, even in this civilized world, which is the saddest part.
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