When two young sisters are torn apart, the eldest loses her identity and transforms into someone new in the name of belonging and resistance.... (Full plot summary below)
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When two young sisters are torn apart, the eldest loses her identity and transforms into someone new in the name of belonging and resistance.
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| Washington PostAnn HornadayYou 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. |
| The PlaylistJoe BlessingYou Resemble Me is a challenging film that tests the limits of empathy, but one whose lessons are ignored at our own peril. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThe 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. |
| The Film StageRory O'ConnorThe worlds of contemporary geopolitics and narrative independent filmmaking collide in You Resemble Me, a movie that shape-shifts from a first act coming-of-age tale into something searing and provocative, and ripped straight from the headlines. |
| Time OutPhil de SemlyenIt has a scrappy, throat-grabbing energy and a sincerity that never feels hectoring. |
| Paste MagazineLuke HicksYou Resemble Me starts as a coming-of-age story and mutates into the permanent falling apart of a woman invisible to society. Then, it redefines itself again as a documentary reckoning...It’s a brilliant turn that showcases the first-time filmmaker’s investigative background with bite. |
| TheWrapRobert AbeleWhether 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. |
| The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeDespite 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. |
| Little White LiesMarina AshiotiThe first half of You Resemble Me is gripping in its neorealistic, social realist approach. |
| Screen DailyLee MarshallIt’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. |
