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Thirty-something Vincent Machot is a hairdresser, like his father before him. Life rotates around work, his overbearing mother who lives in the apartment upstairs, and a womanising cousin constantly trying to set him up. But one morning Vincent experiences a powerful déjà-vu when he meets the gaze of a grocery store clerk, Rosalie Blum. Intrigued by this mysterious woman, he begins following her…
Dheepan is a major film event and the winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2015. Three strangers in conflict-ridden northern Sri Lanka band together as a makeshift family in order to flee to the suburbs of Paris: Dheepan, an ex-Tamil Tiger, lost young woman Yalini and orphan girl Illayaal. As they struggle to find stability, they are forced to improvise their relationships. Soon they find they must cope with new violence and intolerance in their adopted home.
The latest idiosyncratic masterwork from the much fêted auteur, Arnaud Desplechin, is a sincere paean to memories of adolescent romance which is by turns wistful and rueful. A prequel to his earlier My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument, it won the SACD prize at the Directors’ Fortnight of the Cannes International Film Festival in 2015.
Paul Dédalus recalls his early blossoming of love as a teenager, his awkwardly charming flirtations with the beautiful Esther, resulting in a life-defining affair, that is tested by Paul’s leaving rural France to study in Paris. In two other distinct episodes, Paul also remembers elements of his childhood, and a thrilling school trip journey to Russia involving passport espionage with a local Jewish boy.