Dheepan VOD Release Date
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To escape the civil war in Sri Lanka, a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl pose as a family. They end up settling in a housing project outside Paris. They barely know one another, but try to build a life together.
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Based on 17 Dheepan VOD reviews, Dheepan gets an average VOD review score of 80. The score for all versions is 80 based on a total of 68 reviews.
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www.wsj.comVOD
Three Sri Lankan refugees passing as a family try to restart their lives outside of Paris.
2497d ago90/100
www.thewrap.comVOD
Director of “A Prophet” captures the turbulent world of crime-ridden Parisian neighborhoods in this gripping, superbly acted tale of Sri Lankan refugees posing as a family.
2497d agoA-/A+
thefilmstage.comVOD
Considering the impeccable fluidity and narrative clarity of what came before, the last half-hour of Dheepan does appear distractingly messy.
2497d ago90/100
www.nytimes.comVOD
[Mr. Audiard] makes popcorn movies disguised as art films, and vice versa. Dheepan is a bit like a Liam Neeson revenge-dad action thriller directed by the Dardenne brothers. I m...
2497d ago88/100
www.washingtonpost.comVOD
There’s no doubt that Audiard has invested a story of grief, dispossession and desire with immediate, almost tactile, urgency. Like the best fiction, it takes the most incompreh...
2497d ago3.5/4
www.philly.comVOD
Immigrants' story of survival, assimilation, and alienation.
2497d ago4/5
www.telegraph.co.ukVOD
Dheepan 'digs into your soul'
2497d ago4/5
www.empireonline.comVOD
Former Sri Lankan Civil War fighter Sivadhasan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) is forced into the life of a refugee by the Tamil Tigers’ defeat. But Paris turns out not to be the hosp...
2497d ago80/100
www.villagevoice.comVOD
Not much has been heard from Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan since it won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. But going into this understated film cold isn’t a bad way...
2497d ago4/5
www.theguardian.comVOD
The new film from Rust and Bone director Jacques Audiard has a former fighter in the Sri Lankan civil war trying to make a new life in France with a fake family.
2497d ago80/100
www.hollywoodreporter.comVOD
Following 'A Prophet' and 'Rust and Bone,' Jacques Audiard delivers another distinctive drama with this portrait of a family forged out of necessity, trading one war for another.
2497d ago3/4
www.rogerebert.comVOD
"Dheepan," the controversial 2015 Palme d'Or winner, was written and directed by Jacques Audiard, whose films often focus on the forgotten and marginalized, the criminal, the di...
2497d ago3/4
nypost.comVOD
Director Jacques Audiard’s story of three unrelated refugees posing as a family in order to enter France won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.
2497d ago3.5/5
www.austinchronicle.comVOD
Until things devolve into a stormy conclusion, Dheepan is a sharply observed drama about identity and separation, strangeness and commonalities, and making do while hoping for s...
2497d ago70/100
variety.comVOD
Jacques Audiard charts the lives of three Sri Lankan refugees in Paris in a well-acted and gripping but finally overwrought immigrant drama.
2497d agoC/A+
www.avclub.comVOD
Cannes winner Dheepan is a bad Taxi Driver wannabe in disguise.
2497d ago2.5/4
www.slantmagazine.comVOD
Jacques Audiard’s film struggles to overcome the burden of its over-simplified, moralizing setup.
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