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Sep 21, 2021 · You Resemble Me, which was written by Amer and the film’s cinematographer, Omar Mullick, opens with a young Hasna (Lorenza Grimaudo) leaning over the balcony of the apartment she shares with her...
- Lovia Gyarkye
- What Initially Drew You to This Story?
- Identity and Struggling to Belong Became The Major Themes in The Film.
- How Did You First Learn About Hasna?
- How Did You Meet Hasna’s Family?
It wasn’t really a choice. The Charlie Hebdo attack was all over the media. It was painful and difficult for me to watch, but this one image drew me in: a confrontation between a cop and a gunman outside the Charlie Hebdo offices. They were both Arab and Muslim, even though one was in a police uniform and the other was in a balaclava. I was really ...
That’s what made it feel so deep and personal. I mean, how in God’s name did I think I could go to France and make a film about this woman when I’m not French and I’m not even a fluent French speaker? Sometimes in life you have such clarity. You’re driven by pure passion and conviction. It’s not rational, but it’s necessary. I felt like it was nece...
I was in NYC and I heard the news about the Bataclan attacks. I went straight to JFK and I was like, “Put me on any flight.” I was reporting for Vice News and went straight to the scene of the attack. We got word that the mastermind of the attacks was hiding out in St. Denis and there was a woman, his girlfriend-slash-cousin who had helped him find...
I went to her mother’s home. Her mother turned away everyone who showed up, except for me, because I reminded her of her daughter. She was like, “You laugh like her, you’re naïve like her, you remind me of her.” She had abandoned her daughter, so there was catharsis in letting me in. The following week I went to the morgue with her mother and met M...
Nov 3, 2022 · In “You Resemble Me,” the journalist-turned-filmmaker Dina Amer uses fiction to try and make sense of a complicated life: that of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, a Moroccan-French woman who died at 26 ...
- Devika Girish
- Dina Amer
Nov 4, 2022 · Real-life siblings Lorenza and Ilonna Grimaudo have an engaging naturalism as the young girls, dressed in matching pink, floral frocks (which Hasna shoplifted) with their hair in the same messy top knots.
Oct 21, 2022 · The cast includes Lorenza Grimaudo, Ilonna Grimaudo, Mouna Soualem, Sabrina Ouazani and Amer. The film opens Nov. 4 in New York City and Nov. 11 in Los Angeles, with a U.S. national...
Nov 25, 2022 · The film opens as 9-year-old Hansa (Lorenza Grimaudo) and her younger sister Mariam (Ilonna Grimaudo), age 6, laugh and play among the tourists in the streets of Paris. The two wear matching dresses with holes where the security tags were cut out, it doesn’t take us long to figure out how the dresses were acquired.
