A soldier on the losing side of civil strife in Sri Lanka, Dheepan (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) joins with two other emigrants-a woman and an unrelated child-in posing as a family to ease their immigration into France. Language and cultural barriers, as well as living in a Paris housing complex rife with violent drug dealers, lead to a difficult adjustment even as the faux family make a go of acting like a real one. Jacques Audiard's (A Prophet) realistic drama steadily builds toward a Taxi Driver-like denouement in which roiling tensions explode in this Palme d'Or -winner. [See Trailers, LJ 4/1/17] © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.