If you loved The Beat That My Heart Skipped, try Dheepan

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Jacques Audiard, and they both carry the foreign gem mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Beat That My Heart Skipped, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Dheepan is

You're an ex-Tamil Tiger soldier in France, posing as a husband to get asylum. But the housing project is its own kind of war zone. Jacques Audiard observes how new identities can become real ones.

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