Jacques Audiard hit my radar in 2009 when I placed his film A Prophet at #1 on my top ten of 2009. His follow-up, Rust and Bone, made my top ten in 2012. So, yeah, I’m looking forward to his latest, Dheepan, which is set to premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and today we get a batch of the first pictures from the movie along with a clip.
Antonythasan Jesuthasan stars in the lead role as a Sri-Lankan Tamil fighter who is a political refugee in France, where he works as a caretaker on an ‘unruly’ council estate in the Parisian suburbs. Along with a young woman and a little girl, the group pose as a family and end up settling in a housing project outside Paris. They barely know one another, but try to build a life together.
Sundance Selects will hopefully bring this one to theaters later this year. Check out the clip and the rest of the pictures below.
