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Teenager Yesmin and her friends do what all girls their age do: they shoot video clips which they share on social media, they experiment with make-up and alcohol, and occasionally borrow something from their mum’s wardrobe. But when the girls put on hijabs and strut about singing “Losing My Religion”, their video becomes a viral hit which starts to corrode their relations with family and friends. In her semiautobiographical story, the debuting director returns to familiar thorny ground – the nebulous identity of second generation immigrants, the double standards of Muslim households, and the complex process of becoming a woman amid stringent religious rules. To this familiar combination Kurdwin Ayub introduces an unusual visual form, a charismatic female lead, and disarming sincerity. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
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A maddeningly annoying, posturing and unfocused piece of filmmaking that promises a dense generational coming-of-age drama from the perspective of an ethnic minority in its opening, only to devolve into a repetitive attempt at nothing. The Instagram clips are incoherent, interspersed haphazardly with the classic film staging, and don't really move the story anywhere. Why the R.E.M. song was there in the first place is something I could not figure out. And that goes for pretty much every scene, with only the cool dad getting sympathy.
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