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Hafsia Herzi Brings Live-Wire Spirit to Cannes Competition Title ‘The Little Sister’: ‘I’d Always Dreamed of Doing Something Fast, a Bit Thrown Together.’
Hafsia Herzi brings live-wire spirit to Cannes competition title ‘The Little Sister’.
Hafsia Herzi ’s breakout turn in 2007’s “The Secret of the Grain” catapulted her from obscurity to stardom, establishing her as a mainstay of French cinema. Lately, both sides of her career have reached new heights: she recently won the César for best actress for the crime thriller “Borgo,” and now enters the Palme d’Or competition with “The Little Sister.” This latest directorial outing reunites much of the crew from her scrappy debut — a loyal team that also worked with her on “Good Mother,” which screened in Un Certain Regard in 2021. The director brought that same livewire spirit to “The Little Sister,” a coming-of-age drama about a young Franco-Algerian woman grappling with the tension between her Queer identity and her deep religious faith.
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