Jacques Audiard: This is the winner of Cannes – Kleine Zeitung

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Specialist for sympathetic consideration of outsiders: The Frenchman Jacques Audiard (63) gets his haunting refugee drama “Dheepan” in Cannes the “Palme d’Or”. From Ute Baumhackl
 

Worthy winners: Jacques Audiard with his Palme d’Or Photo © APA / EPA / IAN LANGSDON

Jacques Audiard and Cannes: One can read only as a growing love relationship. In 1996, he gets on the Croisette, the first award – for best screenplay (“Life: A lie”). 2009: Grand Jury Prize for “A Prophet.” And now for the grand prize, the Palme d’Or for “Dheepan”, the story of a refugee trio that pretends to be a family in order to stay in France can. The title character comes as a caretaker in a block of a drab Parisian suburb under, the woman as a housekeeper at the local drug lord. In other words: As soon as the newcomers of native violence escape, they are confronted with the gang wars of the banlieue – and Dheepan has to rely on the skills he acquired as a guerrilla warrior of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka

Jacques Audiard, was born on 30 April 1952 in Paris. As a film director and screenwriter of the most important representatives of contemporary French cinema.

 

Films (selection): “lip service” (2001), “A Prophet” (2009), “The taste of rust and bones” (2012)

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refugee drama, thriller, love story: Only one genre can not assign Audiard’s latest film. He wanted it, the director said after the award ceremony, to understand the immigrant recruit, who come to Europe: “I was the situation of those people interested in our company, the other ‘are,” said Audiard. “When you help the – all the better.”

Dealing with marginalized areas is his basic theme. “A prophet” told by a Muslim Frenchman who is taken up in jail in the Corsican Mafia. In “The taste of rust and bones” with Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts Audiard showed how to discover two of life Schwerstversehrte love. “Dheepan” is his only eighth film as director. It can be combined with the development of his time materials; that he began as a screenwriter, contributes to the bleak realism of his films well, as did the wonderful complexity of his characters

Learned has Audiard incidentally with grandees such as Roman Polanski, Patrice Chéreau, Claude Miller. Today he is often compared to Martin Scorsese. The Americans of the sympathetic, almost tender look at his outsider join him as well as the often brutal social learning processes, which he imposed on them

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