You Resemble Me
Dedza Films | Release Date: November 4, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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10
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4
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91
The PlaylistJoe BlessingNov 4, 2022
You Resemble Me is a challenging film that tests the limits of empathy, but one whose lessons are ignored at our own peril. Read full review
88
Washington PostAnn HornadayNov 16, 2022
You Resemble Me would be a vivid, beautifully acted reflection of dispossession and cultural dislocation if it stayed one thing. But, like its mercurial protagonist, it changes shape to become a deeply meaningful meditation on narrative itself, blending fact and fiction into a seamlessly poetic whole. Read full review
88
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 1, 2022
The directing debut of co-writer and star Dina Amer is a vivid portrait of the French underclass and one of the best movies to ever make us walk a mile in the shoes of someone we might not be able to identify with — someone radicalized — but who seems more relatable and understandable, the more time we spend with her. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 1, 2023
A strong, muscular, heartfelt film. Read full review
80
Time OutPhil de SemlyenNov 4, 2022
It has a scrappy, throat-grabbing energy and a sincerity that never feels hectoring. Read full review
80
Paste MagazineLuke HicksNov 3, 2022
You Resemble Me starts as a coming-of-age story and mutates into the permanent falling apart of a woman invisible to society. Then, it redefines itself again as a documentary reckoning...It’s a brilliant turn that showcases the first-time filmmaker’s investigative background with bite. Read full review
75
The Film StageRory O'ConnorNov 4, 2022
The worlds of contemporary geopolitics and narrative independent filmmaking collide in You Resemble Me, a movie that shape-shifts from a first act coming-of-age tale into something searing and provocative, and ripped straight from the headlines. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeNov 4, 2022
Despite its uneven patches, this absorbing experimental film (which includes documentary elements toward the end) seemingly conjures the voice of its deceased subject to tell a gripping and painful story of dislocation and belonging. Read full review
65
TheWrapRobert AbeleNov 4, 2022
Whether we read about someone like Hasna or watch such a sad journey dramatized, it’s worth being reminded that stories like these always leave behind many who are forced to reckon with a society’s notion of what and whom they resemble. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comChristy LemireNov 4, 2022
You Resemble Me is at its strongest when it tries to humanize its misunderstood central figure in simple, intimate ways. Read full review
60
Little White LiesMarina AshiotiFeb 17, 2023
The first half of You Resemble Me is gripping in its neorealistic, social realist approach. Read full review
60
Screen DailyLee MarshallNov 4, 2022
It’s a strange film, one that feels its way through Hasna’s story, changing tack, trying out different methods – including the casting of three different women as the adult Hasna, one of them the director herself, and a final shift into documentary. Read full review
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IndieWireDavid EhrlichNov 3, 2022
Amer’s fraught but noble intent has resulted in a fraught but noble film; a volatile, urgent debut that’s semi-effective kaleidoscopic approach is meant to reflect Hasna Aït Boulahcen’s fractured identity. Read full review
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The New York TimesDevika GirishNov 4, 2022
The film needs more facts and fewer flourishes, but its closing turn to documentary footage, comprising brief snippets of interviews with Hasna’s family, is too little, too late. Read full review
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