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‘The Little Sister’ Review: Nadia Melliti Makes A Striking Debut In Hafsia Herzi’s Seductive Coming-Out Story – Cannes Film Festival


‘The Little Sister’ review: Nadia Melliti makes a striking debut in Hafsia Herzi’s seductive coming out story – Cannes Film Festival

Nadia Melliti and Park Ji-min in 'The Little Sister'MK2 It’s been seven years since Cate Blanchett led 82 women up the red carpet in protest at the male dominance of the world’s biggest film festival. In the meantime, Fatima is experimenting with a dating app, arranging clandestine trysts with all kinds of women, starting with Linda, who gives her a verbal masterclass in the myriad possibilities of lesbian sex. Although she still dresses, ninja-style, like “an Algerian Lara Croft,” Fatima starts to readjust, as we see in surprisingly strong sex scenes that suggest that Herzi has picked up a lot — but thankfully not too much — from Abdellatif Kechiche, with whom she made 2007’s Couscous.

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