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La Petite Dernière – First-Look Review

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For all its big themes, there is a vagueness to Hafsia Herzi’s anecdotal character study about a 17-year-old named Fatima (Nadia Melliti in her first screen role). Adapted from Fatima Daas’s autofiction novel ‘The Last One’, published in 2020, there is much to admire in the tenderness that saturates depictions of the nude female form and in the euphoria pulsing through a handful of lesbian club scenes. It’s hard to shake the feeling elsewhere th…

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Adaptation of the eponymous novel of Fatima Daas, the luminous film by Hafsia Herzi, carried by the revelation Nadia Melliti, upsets by following the emancipation of a young lesbian Muslim.

·Paris, France
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Hafsia Herzi's third feature film, with the revelation Nadia Melliti, whose first role in cinema, has the merit of addressing a rare subject in French cinema.

·Paris, France
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For his third film as a director, Hafsia Herzi adapts a novel by Fatima Daas and takes it with all courages. And revele a debuting actress: Nadia Melliti.

·Paris, France
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Friday afternoon, the French woman entered the Cannoese Competition with her third feature film, featuring a young woman of Algerian origin who discovered her homosexuality. ...

·Brussels, Belgium
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A small jewel of sensitivity and modesty, "La petite dernier" confirms the talent behind Hafsia Herzi's camera. Paris Match met her on the Croisette.

She was met in Cannes two years ago for Le Ravissement, by Iris Kaltenbäck. In this film presented at the Week of Criticism, she embodied an unsolved midwife, ready to steal her best friend's baby. In 2024, she was found on the poster by Borgo, by Stéphane Demoustier.

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Télérama.fr broke the news in on Friday, May 16, 2025.
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