When the war continues to rage in your heart and mind
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.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Apr 20247/10
More like out of the "Dheepan" and into the fire! He (Jesuthasan Anthonythasan) is a Tamil separatist on Sri Lanka who is having to come to terms with the fact that their cause is lost. Fearing persecution, he decides to head to France where he can claim asylum. Along the way, he encounters "Yalini" (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and her daughter "Illayaal" (Claudine Visasithamby) and concluding that all would do better if they claimed to be a family, try to seek safety. Oddly enough, their lack of French language skills and papers doesn't seem to inhibit their arrival in France, but the reward for their efforts is his care-taking work in a block of flats in a lawless Parisian suburb where there seems little evidence of police to patrol the streets run by heavily armed gangs of youths. His job as the janitor seems to give him and his family a degree of immunity from what can only be describes as cross-border violence, and his experiences at home ensure he is no shrinking violet, but watching the hostilities increase and become more and more violent, you just know that their precarious situation must be heading for a crescendo. The efforts from both leading actors here is commendable. The
Read the whole review on TMDB - Renoon TMDB · Dec 20168/10
**Far from the home, but the trouble's not over.** The renowned French filmmaker, Jacques Audiard back with this new sensational film. This time he has chosen to tell us the story of a Sri Lankan Tamil Eelam freedom fighter who had fled to France after the war, followed by his struggles in the new place. The entire film was in Tamil language, but there some French dialogues too. I have been waiting for this, even after I got many opportunities, I had postponed them for some reasons. Finally, I'm very happy for not just got over it, but for the film that has powerful contents to give a peek into the immigrant's lifestyle, I mean not in a pleasant way. Right now it is a huge issue around the world to curb the immigration, especially the illegal ones. But some reasons are really heartbreaking, like in the film 'The Good Lie'. Usually the people like in this story are not welcomed, so they have to lay low and swallow all the troubles they bump into. Sometime the events reflect what happened back in the homeland. In a such way this tale takes place where a civil war fighter, Dheepan, from Lanka lands in France with his fake family of a wife and a daughter named Yalini and Ilayaal respec
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Cast
- Antonythasan JesuthasanDheepan
- Kalieaswari SrinivasanYalini
- Claudine VinasithambyIllayaal
- Vincent RottiersBrahim
- Marc ZingaYoussouf
- Faouzi BensaïdiMonsieur Habib
- Bass DhemAzziz
- Franck FaliseHall C Guard
- Joséphine de MeauxSchool Principal
- Jean-Baptiste PouillouxThe Lawyer
Crew
- Jacques AudiardDirector
- Jacques AudiardScreenplay
- Thomas BidegainScreenplay
- Noé DebréScreenplay
- Éponine MomenceauDirector of Photography
- Nicolas JaarOriginal Music Composer
- Juliette WelflingEditor
- Pascal CaucheteuxProducer
- Jacques AudiardProducer
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