Dheepan Blu-ray

With this Palme d’Or–winning drama, which deftly combines seemingly disparate genres, French filmmaker Jacques Audiard cemented his status as a titan of contemporary world cinema. In an arresting performance, the nonprofessional actor Antonythasan Jesuthasan (himself a former child soldier) stars as a Tamil fighter who, along with a woman and a child posing as his wife and daughter, flees war-torn Sri Lanka only to land in a Paris suburb blighted by drugs. As the makeshift family embarks on a new life, Dheepan settles into an intimate social-realist mode before tightening into a dynamic turf-war thriller, as well as an unsettling study of the psychological aftereffects of combat. Searing and sensitive, Audiard’s film is a unique depiction of the refugee experience as a continuous crisis of identity.
 
Film Info
 
France 
2015
114 minutes
Color
2.35:1
Tamil, French, English 
Spine #871
 
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
 
High-definition digital master, supervised by director Jacques Audiard and cinematographer Éponine Momenceau, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary from 2015 featuring Audiard and coscreenwriter Noé Debré
New interview with Audiard
New interview with actor Antonythasan Jesuthasan
Deleted scenes with audio commentary from 2015 by Audiard and Debré
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Atkinson