You Resemble Me

Name: You Resemble Me
Genre: Drama
Released: November 4, 2022
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Agnès de Tyssandier, Dina Amer, Grégoire Colin, Hedi Bouchenafa, Ilonna Grimaudo

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Dedza Films | Release Date: November 4, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Agnès de Tyssandier, Dina Amer, Grégoire Colin, Hedi Bouchenafa, Ilonna Grimaudo, Jonathan Barbezieux, Lorenza Grimaudo, Nassima Benchicou, Rania Bellot, Tania Dessources

Summary: When two young sisters are torn apart, the eldest loses her identity and transforms into someone new in the name of belonging and resistance.

Director: Dina Amer

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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The Playlist Joe Blessing

Nov 4, 2022

You Resemble Me is a challenging film that tests the limits of empathy, but one whose lessons are ignored at our own peril. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Nov 1, 2022

The directing debut of co-writer and star Dina Amer is a vivid portrait of the French underclass and one of the best movies to ever make us walk a mile in the shoes of someone we might not be able to identify with — someone radicalized — but who seems more relatable and understandable, the more time we spend with her. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

Nov 16, 2022

You Resemble Me would be a vivid, beautifully acted reflection of dispossession and cultural dislocation if it stayed one thing. But, like its mercurial protagonist, it changes shape to become a deeply meaningful meditation on narrative itself, blending fact and fiction into a seamlessly poetic whole. Read full review

Lovia Gyarkye

Nov 4, 2022

Despite its uneven patches, this absorbing experimental film (which includes documentary elements toward the end) seemingly conjures the voice of its deceased subject to tell a gripping and painful story of dislocation and belonging. Read full review

Robert Abele

Nov 4, 2022

Whether we read about someone like Hasna or watch such a sad journey dramatized, it’s worth being reminded that stories like these always leave behind many who are forced to reckon with a society’s notion of what and whom they resemble. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Christy Lemire

Nov 4, 2022

You Resemble Me is at its strongest when it tries to humanize its misunderstood central figure in simple, intimate ways. Read full review

Devika Girish

Nov 4, 2022

The film needs more facts and fewer flourishes, but its closing turn to documentary footage, comprising brief snippets of interviews with Hasna’s family, is too little, too late. Read full review

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Nov 11, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. You Resemble Me is a mesmerizing film and an intimate look at a young woman who wants to belong and be loved. The main character is complex, funny, lonely, lost and, in many ways, relatable.

Although the story may remind some of Taxi Driver, the differences are clear. This film is based on the true story of Hasna Ait Boulahcen who was linked to the Paris attacks of 2015, and falsely accused in the news of being a suicide bomber after she was killed in an explosion at the age of 26. It’s unknown if she was truly aware of her cousin’s criminal activities and the dangerous company that she kept in the last few days of her life. In reality, Hasna never killed anyone, and was recorded saying that she rejected violence and that she wanted to provide humanitarian help to ordinary people suffering in Syria and Palestine. Director Dina Amer, who has extensive experience as a journalist, was granted unique access to family members and neighbors to tell this story. She collected 360 hours of interviews to piece together a more complete picture of Hasna’s life. The film shows Hasna on a constant quest for human connection. She is repeatedly abused, abandoned, disrespected, neglected and attacked at all stages of her life in France. Dina Amer finds cinematic ways to show Hasna’s dissociation, code switching and identity crisis. I’m thinking especially of the moment in her childhood when her beautiful brown eyes morph into blue to appear more acceptable to her foster parents. It portrays heartbreaking longing to be accepted. Personally, I related to Hasna as a woman, as a survivor of domestic abuse and as a resident alien in the US. It becomes more difficult to relate when considering the context, the deaths and magnitude of the trauma associated with these attacks. Still, Dina Amer makes a strong case that a person can be caught in the crossfire.… Expand

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