Deephan

A film where you just know it can't have a pleasant course. And that's exactly what Dheepan offers. A man from Sri Lanka, who fled because of the war, settles in Paris only to find out that violence simply cannot be avoided. Violence is everywhere, even in this civilized world, which is the saddest part. (02.11.2016)

(BE2CAN, Evald) The last scene doesn’t belong there, it must have been a dream. Right? Right, right? Please! (18.10.2015)

Audiard is, of course, a skilled filmmaker, and he proves it in many places, but otherwise Dheepan resembles a torso composed of many pressing humanistic themes, which are just outlined without working with them more systematically. The film therefore disintegrates in the middle in quite strange motivations and emotional twists. The finale is an evocation of Taxi Driver, but feels more like a frustrated Tamil Rambo from the suburbs of Paris. It strikes me as a clueless attempt at a commentary on contemporary geopolitics, which plays the most accessible string. In addition, the film is marked by the fact that it was finished under great pressure and feels as if certain parts are missing. The Palme d'Or in competition with Assassin and Saul fia is, in my view, a purely political decision. [Cannes 2015] (24.05.2015)