
Dounia, a teenager living in the slums and her friend Maimouna start working for Rebecca, a successful drug dealer in order to escape their poverty. Her meeting with Djigui, a sexy dancer, makes things complicated, but leaving Rebecca is not easy..... (Full plot summary below)
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Dounia, a teenager living in the slums and her friend Maimouna start working for Rebecca, a successful drug dealer in order to escape their poverty. Her meeting with Djigui, a sexy dancer, makes things complicated, but leaving Rebecca is not easy..
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| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn Johanson[A]n absolute corker of a coming-of-age tale with a vividly drawn heroine and a blistering eye for the ironies of a life of crime.... [T]he performances from the trio of women at the center are mesmerizing, lively, and uniquely unforgettable. |
| MTVAmy NicholsonIt's thrillingly, fiercely female. It takes the same neighborhood-boy-turns-hoodlum story we've seen for a century and simply flips the script. |
| indieWireDavid EhrlichThis is no simple story of girl power. In fact, it’s arguably less concerned with feminism than it is with the financial realities that impede it from taking root. |
| The PlaylistKevin JagernauthBenyamina displays an empathetic and insightful view of young women, and the challenges of growing up, even if the screenplay doesn’t always follow through. But what Divines absolutely gets right is the deep longing and hunger young people have to better their circumstances, and the desperate lengths they’ll go to reach those goals. |
| Black Girl NerdsJoelle MoniqueDivines weaves together first love, religious identity, youth poverty, and then pure rage into a haunting story. |
| VarietyCatherine BrayIn her aces debut feature Divines, Houda Benyamina has what ought to be a career-making film on her hands. |
| Screen InternationalLee MarshallFizzing with ideas, as difficult to pin down as its heroine, Divines keeps generating electricity long after the lights have gone down. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawMaybe the final five minutes are a little too over the top, but the overwhelming impression is that Dounia has ambition and vision, a conviction that she might still be able shape her own future. It’s an exhilarating film. |
| AV ClubMike D'AngeloDivines, written and directed by French-Moroccan filmmaker Houda Benyamina, rivals "Girlhood" as a portrait of combustible banlieue femininity, emanating raw energy and scrappy good humor even as it builds to an unexpectedly tragic and horrifying finale. |
| Black Girl NerdsJoelle SmithDivines weaves together first love, religious identity, youth poverty, and then pure rage into a haunting story. |