Dheepan

2015 · directed by Jacques Audiard

Rating

80/100

Hit

yes

Prestige lists

Palme d'Or

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.

Dheepan (2015), directed by Jacques Audiard, rates 80/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Antonythasan Jesuthasan
• Kalieaswari Srinivasan
• Claudine Vinasithamby
• Vincent Rottiers
• Marc Zinga
• Faouzi Bensaïdi
• Bass Dhem
• Franck Falise
• Joséphine de Meaux
• Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux

Crew

• Éponine Momenceau — Director of Photography
• Juliette Welfling — Editor
• Nicolas Jaar — Original Music Composer
• Jacques Audiard — Screenplay
• Noé Debré — Screenplay
• Thomas Bidegain — Screenplay

More from Jacques Audiard

1. A Prophet (2009) — 83/100 · hit
2. Read My Lips (2001) — 79/100
3. The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) — 75/100
4. Rust and Bone (2012) — 74/100
5. The Sisters Brothers (2018) — 74/100
6. Paris, 13th District (2021) — 73/100

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