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DARK HORSE (PG)
Residents in a poor Welsh mining village pool their
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racehorse they would breed and raise
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LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (PG)
HAIL, CEASAR!
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DEADPOOL
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Jane Austen’s epistolary novel LADY SUSAN has been
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A thorough examination of modern politics, the 24-
hour news cycle and the grind of the campaign trail
2016 Sundance Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
(Winner)
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CLOWN
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ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING
GLASS (DIG) (PG)
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THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE (DIG)
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CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
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11:45, 6:50, 10:10
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE (DIG)
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10:30, 1:15, 4:20, 7:40, 10:25
THE CONJURING 2 (DIG) (R)
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FINDING DORY (3D) (PG)
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FINDING DORY (DIG) (PG)
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THE JUNGLE BOOK (2016)
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ME BEFORE YOU (DIG) (PG-13)
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THE NICE GUYS (DIG) (R)
10:20, 7:15, 10:15
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (DIG) (PG-13)
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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA
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WARCRAFT (3D) (PG-13)
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X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (DIG)
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10:45, 12:05, 2:25, 3:40, 6:10, 7:05,
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MAGGIE'S PLAN
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THE LOBSTER
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THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY
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SING STREET
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Sri Lankan refugees fight to survive
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ar is hell, no doubt. But for all those nameless, faceless refugees escaping
the war at home, the realities of relocation can plunge them into a new kind
of nightmare, one almost as bloody and chaotic.
In Jacques Audiard’s latest film, Dheepan, a trio of refugees fleeing war-
torn Sri Lanka wind up in a French slum, where they are forced, literally, to
fight for their lives. At once excruciatingly suspenseful and tenderly intimate, this film —
which won the 2015 Palme d’Or at Cannes — takes a geopolitical crisis and humanizes it
in ways that are revealing and moving.
The film opens on a scene of brutal devastation: Dheepan (Antonythasan Jesuthasan),
a vanquished insurgent, lays palm fronds over the bodies of fallen soldiers, who are then
burned wholesale. Along with other Tamil Tigers, Dheepan is forced into a refugee camp,
where he forms a quick alliance with Yalini (Kalieaswari Srinivasan), a woman who, to
gain asylum, poses as the mother of Illayaal (Claudine Vinasithamby), a 9-year-old orphan.
Together, these three strangers form a makeshift family, eventually landing in Le Pré-Saint-
Gervais, a kind of Cabrini Green-style housing project north of Paris.
Dheepan, a tragic man whose quiet dignity belies the surging agonies of PTSD, is made
caretaker of the housing project, which doubles as a haven for thugs and drug runners. Il-
layaal enters school, and Yalini reluctantly takes on the role of wife and mother, though
she’s torn by a constant urge to leave this new hellhole for London. Eventually, their lives
tangle up with Brahim (Vincent Rottiers), a recently released convict desperate to re-estab-
lish his kingpin control over the projects.
Dheepan moves with tense, relentless momentum toward an explosive conclusion that
is no less shocking for being inevitable. And yet, for all its implied and explicit violence,
the film finds the real source of its power in the transformation of a ramshackle immigrant
family whose survival gives rise to something that looks a lot like love.
Audiard has a beautiful eye for the telling details of immigrant life (which, after all, is
just life). At one point, Dheepan confesses to Yalini that he completely fails to understand
French humor, and as she ribs him about this, we witness a kind of thaw — the warmth
of two strangers finding a common humanity, which leads to an erotic recognition that is
inseparable from their growing sense of place. Moments such as these make Dheepan a
special movie, indeed; the undeniable politics of the situation, so complex and heartless,
are nonetheless subsumed to serve the universal drama of human beings searching for
identity amid the mess of everyday life, no matter how shitty that is.
And that, really, is why Dheepan is such an important film right now. As the vicious
clamor of pampered politicians and xenophobic reactionaries rises to a din that threatens
to drown out all reason, this film puts truth to the lie that hordes of invading foreigners are
the problem, and that the threat to society always comes from without. It’s a cold, cowardly
heart that would take a look at a man like Dheepan and call him the real enemy. (Broadway
Metro)