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Synopsis: Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter, a Tiger. In Sri Lanka, the Civil War is reaching its end, and defeat is near. Dheepan decides to flee, taking with him two strangers - a woman and a little girl - hoping that they will make it easier for him to claim asylum in Europe. Arriving in Paris, the 'family' moves from one temporary home to another until Dheepan finds work as the caretaker of a run-down housing block in the suburbs. He works to build a new life and a real home for his 'wife' and his 'daughter', but the daily violence he confronts quickly reopens his war wounds, and Dheepan is forced to reconnect with his warrior's instincts to protect the people he hopes will become his true family.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Jacques Audiard
Production: Sundance Selects
  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 6 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
R
Year:
2015
115 min
$247,597
335 Views


No?

Why?

- It burned down.

- Your school?

It burned down?

Why did it burn down?

What does she say?

Who burned down the school?

- How do you say government?

- Government.

The government?

The government burned down the school?

OK.

She'll join the UP2A.

It's a special class so

she can learn french.

Do you understand?

It's a special class.

Do you have any more questions?

They ask about a lot.

Who burn down the school,

why, how?.

Everybody burn down schools.

Why do you say that?

I don't want to!

I want to stay with you!

Don't leave me!

Look at me.

The three of us have a secret.

I don't want to go.

Don't forget it.

We, the grownups, have to work.

And you

have to go to school

and learn french.

You need to speak the language

with the other children.

Otherwise, we'll have to

go back to Sri Lanka.

Do you want to go back there?

Do you?

Me neither.

Look at me.

Are you going back to school?

Get up.

Let's go, let's go.

Zaoui.

Building B.

Z.

Samir Ben Cherif S.

Take these, try it.

Sort them.

Harek.

D...

It's easy.

I don't know them.

Can you ask Youssouf?

What's he going to think if

we bother him all the time?

Each one has a slot.

People knock on the door,

you open it.

They take their mail and that's it.

And then?

What do I say to them?

What do you want to say?

Good day. Thank you.

I'm the housekeeper.

You introduce yourself,

you act nice and that's it.

Dheepan!

I'm here.

- Come!

- Why?

Come, quickly!

What is it?

My name is Aziz,

I live in Building A, upstairs.

I'm Mourad, from B.

It's all right,

she got the names mixed up.

She thought she had to sort by

first name, not surname.

Here, for example:

B for Bouchenak. You understand?

Ben Sherif.

If you didn't know, why did you

ask me to do it?

Let them talk.

Do you understand them?

What are they going to think of me?

Shut up!

Don't fight, it's not worth it.

We'll teach you.

C, Certaoui,

it's my apartment.

What is it?

She's crying.

It's OK. She's tired.

Go to sleep.

Now what?

Can I stay with you?

Come.

It's was supposed to be

a children's room.

lndia's participation in the

Tamil Tigers conflict...

Give a kiss, like the others.

What do you think you're doing?

I, housekeeper.

Cleaning.

Do you live here?

You can't come in, we're not

finished. Come back later.

After, later.

Don't stand there, take off!

- Good morning, madam.

- Good morning, sir.

I can't do everything myself.

It's as if I have to take

care of two children.

Couldn't you work?

Isn't this work?

Get a job, make some money.

When I go out, people stare at me.

We're new here, it's normal

that people stare.

We'll get used to it.

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Jacques Audiard

Jacques Audiard (French: [ʒak odjaʁ]; born 30 April 1952) is a French film director and screenwriter. He is the son of Michel Audiard, also a screenwriter and film director. He has won both the César Award for Best Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language twice, in 2005 for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and in 2010 for A Prophet, as well as winning the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. His 2012 film Rust and Bone, competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won the BFI London Film Festival Award for Best Film. His 2015 film Dheepan won the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. more…

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