LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

cinemajesty Film Review: "Dheepan" (2015)A surprise of real-life-felt confrontation thriller directed by Jacques Audiard, who after fulminate picture contributions at "Cannes" with "The Beat When My Heart Skipped" (2005) and "A Prophet" (2009), finally reaches his well-deserved recognition as "Palme d'Or" winner for the original story of Sri Lanka freedom fighter, using his combat skills as sharpened senses to struggle his way out of a dead end situation, when this picture runs on high voltage all the way to a fulfilling showdown of suburbia backyard action, which bursts out like a cannonball. Copyright 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

Páiric O'Corráin Won the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. About an ex Tamil Tiger who goes to France after the catastrophic defeat. He is accompanied by a woman & child who pretend to be his wife & daughter. He has to adopt a new identity as he was one of the few leaders to survive. In France after moving around he gets a job as a caretaker in a block of apartments in an estate run by drugs gangs. He just wants a peaceful life but comes into conflict with the drug dealers. The warrior within has to emerge once moreThe story has been done before, in many Westerns; Ken Loach has done it in Scotland but Jacques Audiard ("A Prophet") puts his own stamp on this interpretation of the old tale. Really moving. 9/10.

satxfan This was a wonderful film that depicts a experiences of a refugee 'family' as they try to establish a life in France. Oddly enough, the ending of this film has been highly criticized. IMO, the people who have criticized the ending perhaps have not carefully thought through the events leading up to that 'ending.' Dheepan's wife is held hostage and Dheepan goes to the rescue. He attacks a couple of gang members with a machete and then, using a confiscated gun, kills several more gang members on his way up to the top floor of the apartment building where his wife is being held. The building is still surrounded and controlled by violent gang members. Without much doubt, the police are on their way there, too. It seems that the only real 'ending' for Dheepan is either to be killed by gang members - after all, he's on the top floor with no logical escape route - OR - to be arrested by the police for murder. It's not even imaginable that he escaped that situation unscathed. It's even more unimaginable that he could have gotten out of there and then emigrated to England.The 'ending' then is not the real ending to Dheepan's story. His story obviously did not end well. The 'ending' tagged into the film is a dream - a dream of what might have been. The 'ending' is shot in warm, hazy tones, no one has aged or changed - It's a wish, a dream, a last fleeting thought.

DonGateley There are few, if any, vectors in the space that spans film art where Dheepan fails to be superlative if not triumphant.The emotional arcs of the film are as satisfying as they are powerful, beautiful and ultimately enigmatic.This stands real close to the top of the films I consider great.I used English subs and you almost don't need to look at them the animation sweeps so high above the dialog. The acting, top to bottom, is the maximum of all the possible superlatives. As they are new to acting, the actor's performances also speak to the skill of the director.It's now the day after I wrote the above and I am still replaying it in my mind's eye. The fierce and wide ranging countenance shown by the commanding Antonythasan Jesuthasan remains there to savor. I know I will watch this again in the same way that I re-listen to a symphony. Re-watching a film is an extreme rarity for me.