Dheepan
First screened in September 2015
Director: Jacques Audiard. Cast: Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers, Marc Zinga, Faouzi Bensaïdi, Bass Dhem, Vasanth Selvam, Nathan Anthonypillai, Franck Falise, Kartik Krishan, Joséphine de Meaux. Screenplay: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, and Noé Debré. Twitter Capsule:That's the Palme d'or winner everybody decided to get all up in their feelings about? That wasn't an immediate, deserved cause célèbre?
Second Capsule:
Sleek, observant, steadily winching synthesis of prior Audiard themes. Psychology deftly externalized. Actors keep it hot.
VOR:⑤
How many Western films have leads of this complexion? Complex look at a recuperating mercenary, and a tough, stylish document of migrants' unease.
