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- 2022
- WILLA
- 1 h 31 m
- 2022
- WILLA
- 1 h 31 m
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.
Directed By: Dina Amer
Written By: Omar Mullick
- 2022
- WILLA
- 1 h 31 m
- 2022
- WILLA
- 1 h 31 m
You Resemble Me
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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.
Directed By: Dina Amer
Written By: Omar Mullick
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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29% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
69
71% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
29% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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You Resemble Me is a challenging film that tests the limits of empathy, but one whose lessons are ignored at our own peril.
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.
It has a scrappy, throat-grabbing energy and a sincerity that never feels hectoring.
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.
You Resemble Me is at its strongest when it tries to humanize its misunderstood central figure in simple, intimate ways.
It’s a strange film, one that feels its way through Hasna’s story, changing tack, trying out different methods – including the casting of three different women as the adult Hasna, one of them the director herself, and a final shift into documentary.
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.
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Production Company
The Othrs,
WILLA,
Artemis Rising Foundation,
D'Artagnan,
Foothill Productions,
Hameda's Stories,
Level Forward,
RYOT Films,
Vice Studios
Release Date Nov 4, 2022
Duration 1 h 31 m
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Website
https://youresembleme.com/
Awards
REC Tarragona
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
Oakville Festivals of Film and Art
• 3 Nominations
Prague International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
