Directed by Jacques Audiard | 115 mins | 2015
Like his 2009 prison crime saga "A Prophet", Jacques Audiard’s Palme d’Or-winning pressure cooker "Dheepan" centers on a man thrown into a new, insular, and hostile society. Sivadhasan, a Tamil Tiger soldier—played by Antonythasan Jesuthasan, whose own experiences in the LTTE informed the film—flees Sri Lanka for a Parisian banlieue, where he is appointed caretaker of a crumbling building. Steeped in the drug trade, his new home proves a war zone in its own right.