Dheepan

Meet 5.50 pm outside the cinema; optional drink in the Royal Park after the film.

SYNOPSIS:
Fleeing civil war in Sri Lanka, a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl pretend to be a family when arriving in France seeking asylum and a new life. However Dheepan quickly finds that the Paris suburbs are anything but easy in this new and startling film by Jacques Audiard (RUST AND BONE, A PROPHET).

CRITICAL REACTION: Dheepan is a radical and astonishing film that turns conventional thinking about immigrants on its head, and takes a faceless immigrant coming from a war barely covered in the media and turns him into a Travis Bickle-type anti-hero. Kaleem Aftab, THE INDEPENDENT