{"id":71485,"date":"2025-05-04T21:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/04\/paris-based-thriller-offers-fresh-inside-take-on-french-tamil-community-little-jaffna"},"modified":"2025-05-04T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T12:00:06","slug":"paris-based-thriller-offers-fresh-inside-take-on-french-tamil-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71485","title":{"rendered":"Paris-based thriller offers fresh inside take on French-Tamil community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer, actor and director Lawrence Valin says that in Little Jaffna he wanted to \u2018show new role models\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It has been hailed as one of the most innovative and surprising French gangster films this year: a suspense movie that tears through Paris\u2019s Tamil neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>The police thriller <a href=\"https:\/\/zinc.fr\/film\/little-jaffna\/\">Little Jaffna<\/a>, which opened in France this week, is set in the French capital\u2019s Tamil community, which has rarely been represented on screen \u2013 and never in an action film by a French actor, writer and director of Tamil heritage giving his inside take on the legacy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/26\/tamils-fear-prison-and-torture-in-sri-lanka-13-years-after-civil-war-ended\">Sri Lanka\u2019s bloody ethnic conflict<\/a> for younger generations living far away in Europe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/04\/paris-based-thriller-offers-fresh-inside-take-on-french-tamil-community-little-jaffna\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer, actor and director Lawrence Valin says that in Little Jaffna he wanted to \u2018show new role models\u2019It has been hailed as one of the most innovative and surprising French gangster films this year: a suspense movie that tears through Paris\u2019s Tamil n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,69,526,1482,674,1800,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-film","category-france","category-paris","category-sri-lanka","category-thrillers","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71486,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71485\/revisions\/71486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}