US Trailer for Acclaimed Drama ‘You Resemble Me’ About Two Sisters
by Alex Billington
October 21, 2022
Supply: YouTube
“A strong cry from the center.” Dedza Movies + Willa Productions have unveiled an official US trailer for a French / Egyptian mission titled You Resemble Me, an emotional drama about two sisters – marking the function debut of filmmaker Dina Amer. This primary premiered on the 2021 Venice Movie Competition final yr within the Critics’ Week sidebar, and has performed at many different fests, together with on the 2022 Santa Barbara Movie Competition earlier this yr. When two younger sisters are torn aside, the older one loses her identification and transforms into somebody new within the title of belonging and resistance. It has been 7 years since Bataclan and the stunning incident with Hasna Aït Boulahcen. Impressed by true occasions, You Resemble Me tells her story. In narrative type, the movie recounts Hasna’s upbringing, the unlucky occasions that led to her decisions, and the best way she was depicted within the media. “An insistence on lifting the veils and starting the conversations that conceal our shared humanity.” Starring Lorenza Grimaudo, Ilonna Grimaudo, Mouna Soualem, Sabrina Ouazani, and lots of others. This appears to be like fascinating and highly effective in lots of distinctive methods. Have a look beneath.
This is the official US trailer (+ poster) for Dina Amer’s You Resemble Me, direct from YouTube:
“This movie is a journey by way of layers of disassociation, from the non-public and familial to the spiritual and colonial; a kaleidoscope of splintered identities and fractured goals. You Resemble Me explores the unexamined roots of trauma and the devastating choice that one lady made within the title of belonging. The mission of this movie is to not excuse her selection however to look at how she arrived at that call. The intention of this exploration is that it could assist inform us as a society the way to safeguard different people from falling into the identical traps. Within the making of the movie, I drew from my expertise inside underserved and marginalized communities; there are such a lot of individuals who resemble the primary character, Hasna. Many individuals desperately search a way of identification, household, course, and love in all of the improper locations, but some – like Hasna – seize our consideration within the worst method when their search goes improper.” –Director Dina Amer
You Resemble Me tells the true story of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, a girl who was falsely accused of being Europe’s first feminine suicide bomber. Cultural and intergenerational trauma erupt on this story about two sisters on the outskirts of Paris. After the siblings are torn aside, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to seek out her identification, resulting in a selection that shocks the world. Director Dina Amer takes on one of many darkest problems with our time and deconstructs it in an intimate story about household, love, sisterhood, and belonging. You Resemble Me is directed by the Egyptian-American filmmaker / journalist Dina Amer, making her function directorial debut after engaged on the doc movie The Sq. beforehand. The screenplay is written by Dina Amer and Omar Mullick. It is government produced by fellow filmmakers Spike Jonze, Spike Lee, Riz Ahmed, and Alma Har’el. This initially premiered on the 2021 Venice Movie Competition final yr, enjoying within the Critics’ Week sidebar there, earlier than screening at many different worldwide festivals. Dedza Movies will launch Amer’s You Resemble Me in choose US theaters (beginning in NYC) on November 4th, 2022 coming quickly this fall.
