Crime · Drama
French
2015 · Directed by Jacques Audiard · 115 min
Three strangers, a man, a woman and a girl, leave Sri Lanka's civil war by pretending to be a family. In a rough Paris housing estate they must learn a new language, a new routine and a new life, while the old one stays close behind them.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of 21st-century French cinema about immigration and the banlieue, it shows an established auteur reshaping social realism with genre craft.
Watch with intention
Watch how the film asks what makes a family: performance, habit and shared space, rather than blood or paperwork.
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