In "Dheepan," which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival last year, he travels from war movie to migrant drama to film noir, adding an atypically happy ending, to boot. Fleeting scenes capture a burning Sri Lankan village in the bloody, disorienting aftermath of civil war. To gain asylum, a rebel fighter (played by Jesuthasan Antonythasan, himself a former Tamil Tiger child soldier turned acclaimed writer in France) who, having lost his family in the war, cobbles together a pseudo family. Placed in a tenement block in Paris' banlieues, Dheepan warily eyes the drug-dealing gang members that patrol the apartment building roofs and clog the stairwells. [...] for Audiard, whose "Rust and Bone" chronicled the revival of a badly injured killer-whale trainer and whose Oscar-nominated "A Prophet" depicted a small-time criminal's rise in a prison's Corsican mob, rebirth is a mean and messy business.