An actress who explodes the screen in just a few seconds. In the trailer of The last little one Hafsia Herzi revealed this Thursday, Nadia Melliti, obscured by the women’s interpretation award in Cannes last May, is almost all plans.
The third feature film of the actress and Cesarized director, freely adapted from the first autobiographical inspiration novel by Fatima Daas, published in 2020, had caused a sensation in the croisette where she had been selected in competition. He will be released in France on October 22.
This drama tells the story of Fatima, 17, the youngest of a warm family living in the suburbs. Good student, Muslim, joined a University of Philosophy in Paris and discovers a completely new world. As his life as a young woman begins, emancipa of his family and his traditions, and begins to question his identity, sexual and religious in particular.
In the casting, we also find Ji-Min Park, Amina Ben Mohamed, Melissa Guers or Mouja Soalem.
On the path of the Oscar
A student in a sports sector, Nadia Melliti, 23, was seen on the street by a casting director and had never done a cinema or a theater before playing in The youngest.
The film is among the five French titles preselected on Wednesday to wait to compete in the Oscar for the best international film. We should know on September 17 if the feature film will represent, or not, France at the Hollywood ceremony.
Source: BFM TV
