You Resemble Me (2021) on Netflix
Hasna and her sister Mariam are torn apart as children. The elder sister spends the years that follow searching for who she is and where she belongs.
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- Netflix4.0/5
- IMDb6.8/10436 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes93%
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Plot summary
Two sisters are separated as children, and the eldest, Hasna, grows up trying to work out who she is and where she belongs. The story was built from hundreds of hours of interviews with the family and friends of the woman it is based on. Real sisters were found through street casting to play the children, and three actresses share the role of the grown Hasna, with deep fake technology used to show her changing how she appears as she looks for connection and belonging.
Cast
- Lorenza Grimaudoas Child Hasna
- Ilona Grimaudoas Child Mariam
- Alexandre Goninas Abdelhamid
- Sana Srias Amina
- Djino Grimaudo
- Romain Royet
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about You Resemble Me (2021)
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- Dina Amer, then a Vice News reporter, covered the 2015 Saint-Denis raid and felt complicit in spreading the false report that Hasna Aït Boulahcen was a suicide bomber; she spent several years and 360 hours of interviews with Boulahcen's family and friends writing the screenplay.
- Dina Amer walked away from a deal with Amazon Studios in order to keep her own vision for the film, because the studio wanted it made as a documentary instead.
- After its Venice premiere the filmmakers got no real distribution offer, only a deal handing over the rights for 10 years with no financial return, because distributors liked the film but feared its subject matter; they self-distributed instead.
- The film took the Audience Award at the Red Sea Festival and an unprecedented four awards at REC Tarragona, among them the CineClub Jury Prize, the Young Jury Prize and the Audience Award.
- Dina Amer used deep fake technology so audiences could watch Hasna Aït Boulahcen switching identities in search of belonging, casting three actresses as Hasna: Mouna Soualem, Sabrina Ouazani and herself.
- The young Hasna and her sister Mariam were played by real-life sisters Lorenza and Illonna Grimaudo, who were found through a process of "street casting".
