Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Cinema Guildford's next film, from acclaimed director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust and Bone), is a gripping, human tale of survival. There is such exhilarating movie mastery in this powerful film, which is bulging with giant confidence and packed with outbursts of mysterious epiphanic grandeur.
On the losing side of a civil war in Sri Lanka, a Tamil soldier poses as the husband and father of two other refugees in order to escape their ravaged homeland. Arriving in France, the makeshift "family" sets about establishing a new life-only to find themselves once again embroiled in violence on the mean streets of Paris.
A heartrending saga of three strangers united by circumstance and struggle, Dheepan is both a tour-de-force thriller and a powerful depiction of the immigrant experience.
"Digs into your soul" Daily Telegraph
"Exhilirating mastery of style" The Guardian
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