Overview
- The film begins its theatrical run in France on Wednesday following a high‑profile festival circuit that included Cannes competition.
- Nadia Melliti, 23, makes her screen debut as Fatima and won Cannes’ Best Actress after being discovered in a street casting.
- Adapted from Fatima Daas’s autobiographical novel, the story traces a young Muslim woman in the banlieue as she gradually accepts her homosexuality.
- Reviews from Télérama and France Inter praise the film’s intensity, the precision of Herzi’s direction, and Melliti’s breakthrough performance.
- The release marks a new step in Herzi’s evolution from celebrated actor to acclaimed director after Tu mérites un amour (2019) and Bonne mère (2021).