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The Little Sister’s Nadia Melliti Is Cannes’s Breakout Star
How Melliti and director Hafsia Herzi created a moving portrait of a young muslim woman exploring her sexuality.
In the Cannes competition film from actor-director Hafsia Herzi, Melliti, 18, plays Fatima, a Franco-Algerian high-school senior in Paris who’s exploring her burgeoning attraction to women while hiding it from her religious Muslim family. She slowly opens up, physically and emotionally, as she comes to terms with her own desires, falls in love for the first time, gets her heart broken, and grapples with holding onto her Muslim faith while wandering outside the bounds of it. I’m curious if you can speak a bit about shooting gay sex scenes from a female gaze, versus the approach Abdellatif Kechiche took for his film, which got criticized.
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