1. Divines | Rotten Tomatoes
RATING: A Director: Houda Benyamina Divines is really underrated with general audiences but it actually is fantastic and Filmmaking at its finest. The lead is ...
In a housing estate on the outskirts of Paris, a teenager who is hungry for her share of power and success becomes a runner for a drug dealer. When she meets a male dancer, a window of opportunity offers a different kind of life.
2. Cannes Film Review: 'Divines' - Variety
May 19, 2016 · A funny, suspenseful and emotionally involving drama about a tough but naive teen who sees getting rich or dying trying as her only option.
A funny, suspenseful and emotionally involving drama about a tough but naive teen who sees getting rich or dying trying as her only option.
3. Divines review – exhilarating urban thriller froths with joie de vivre
Nov 11, 2016 · Houda Benyamina's Paris-set drama about the intense friendship between two young women with dreams of better lives is consistently enjoyable.
Houda Benyamina’s Paris-set drama about the intense friendship between two young women with dreams of better lives is consistently enjoyable
4. Review: Netflix Film Divines Is A Heavenly Cast Coming-Of-Age Story
Nov 17, 2016 · “Divines” tells a scrappy coming-of-age story about a place where women are encouraged to follow their individual dreams so long as they don't have a chance of ...
Houda Benyamina's ferocious debut is the perfect companion to Céline Sciamma's "Girlhood."
5. Divines Reviews - Metacritic
Visually an conceptually it remains a beautiful movie. But its lack of poetry, meaningful sense and overall depth totally ruined my experience of it. Je refuse ...
In a suburb where trafficking and religion run side by side, Dounia is eager for power and success. Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she decides to follow in the footsteps of Rebecca, a respected dealer. But when Dounia meets Djigui, a young sensuous dancer, her daily life is disrupted.
6. Divines (2016) Movie Review
Winner of a Camera d'Or, the debutant's prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Director Houda Benyamina's first feature film is fast-paced and full of energy. Deep ...
7. Divines critic reviews - Metacritic
Divines, written and directed by French-Moroccan filmmaker Houda Benyamina, rivals Girlhood as a portrait of combustible banlieue femininity.
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8. 'Divines': Cannes Review - Screen Daily
May 22, 2016 · This tough, feisty French disaffected youth drama, which lifted the Camera d'Or cross-section prize for best first film at this year's Cannes ...
Dir: Houda Benyamina. France. 2016. 106 mins
9. Divines: A dazzling film - Cineuropa
May 21, 2016 · 21/05/2016 - CANNES 2016: Houda Benyamina has bewitched the Croisette with a film from the heart, which whisks you away on a joyride that ...
21/05/2016 - CANNES 2016: Houda Benyamina has bewitched the Croisette with a film from the heart, which whisks you away on a joyride that will take your breath away, alongside its two brilliant heroines
10. Divines movie review - The female La Haine. Perhaps even better?
Nov 17, 2016 · As WINTER'S BONE ignited J-Law's stratospheric rise, DIVINES has that raw power central performance. Dounia's transformation, from class clown ...
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11. Divines (2016) directed by Houda Benyamina • Reviews, film + cast
Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she decides to follow in the ... After all, it's probably better than any compliment she's ever received before ...
In a ghetto where religion and drug trafficking rub shoulders, Dounia has a lust for power and success. Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she decides to follow in the footsteps of Rebecca, a respected dealer. But her encounter with Djigui, a young, disturbingly sensual dancer, throws her off course.
12. French resistance: can Netflix win over its harshest critics? - The Guardian
Nov 19, 2016 · First out of the gate is Houda Benyamina's Divines, winner of the festival's Caméra d'Or prize, which began streaming yesterday. The film ...
As the streaming platform struggles across the Channel, a new Cannes haul could provide an opportunity to seduce a very sceptical audience
13. Uneven 'Divines' Still Marks Director Houda Benyamina As One To ...
Nov 14, 2016 · Powered by a pair of strong performances from Oulaya Amamra and Déborah Lukumuena, their presence manages to keep “Divines” engaging even as it ...
The first-generation immigrant experience, class and racial unrest, coming of age, a young adult romance, and a crime story all collide in Houda Benyamina’s debut feature “Divines.” But instead of those elements creating a complex tale of contemporary life in France’s underclass, the resulting picture is an odd collection of strident single notes, a film […]
14. Divines (2016) - Art of the Title
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Get to know Dounia and Maimouna's corner of Paris in the opening of Divines.
15. Divines - The Panoptic
Oct 8, 2016 · Divines, directed by Uda Benyamina, is a funny, touching tale of innocence and ambition, with an eventual brutality that hits you like a ...
A review of 'Divines' by Louis Chilton.
16. The furious energy of Houda Benyamina - Road to Paradise and ...
Jan 10, 2017 · If The Road To Paradise fits more or less solidly in the spiritual existentialist tradition of French social realism, Divines marks a decisive ...
In two recent films, French-Moroccan director Houda Benyamina charts social conditions and identities in flux with grace and genuine outrage.
17. Divines by Houda Benyamina - Africiné
Dec 20, 2016 · Moroccan director Houda Benyamina's film Divines, which has been screened within the Official Competition at the Carthage Film Festival ...
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18. Dance and Dreams in Divines - RAZZ - WordPress.com
Jun 29, 2021 · The French movie Divines (2016), directed by Uda Benyamina, looks ... The first time she witnesses dancers training, Dounia challenges her best ...
The French movie Divines (2016), directed by Uda Benyamina, looks into the tragic reality of people that are not born privileged and have to find their place in the world, making money and becoming…
19. Divines - Movie Reviews - Rotten Tomatoes
Divines is a thrilling and compassionate film that shows incredible promise...The bulk of the film is great in its own right, but the final 15 minutes ...
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20. Divines (2016) - Houda Benyamina - film review and synopsis
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An in-depth review of the film Divines (2016), directed by Houda Benyamina.
21. Cannes Q&A: Houda Benyamina talks 'Divines' - Screen Daily
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The French film-maker speaks to Screen about her Directors' Fortnight entry, Divines
22. 44. Divines, directed by Houda Benyamina - Popticon
May 14, 2018 · Dounia, the protagonist in Divines, proves pretty quickly that she can throw a punch, and take one too. But by the film's conclusion, ...
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23. The Top 10 Movies Starring Divine - Flickchart
"Pink Flamingos", "Female Trouble", "Hairspray", "Polyester", & "Multiple Maniacs" are on The Top 10 Movies Starring Divine on Flickchart.
24. Divines review: an exuberant young female buddy thriller - BFI
Feb 15, 2017 · This go-its-own-way banlieu barnstormer from the self-taught Houda Benyamina was officially the best debut feature at Cannes 2016, ...
The film that came out of nowhere at Cannes this year was Houda Benyamina’s debut Divines. It went from having little to no buzz to getting a storming standing ovation that lasted ten minutes. Benyamina and her ’til-now totally unknown cast were mobbed on stage with cheers and claps. Even the translator had a wobble in her voice when she spoke.
25. Movie Review - DIVINES - Geek Girl Authority
Mar 22, 2017 · Jisca Kalvanda is all power plays as a convincing Rebecca but Oulaya Amamra as Dounia delivers in the most crucial role. My biggest hurdle with ...
SLUMDOG CENT MILLEAIRE Divines Review by Paul Preston What do you think of when you think of Paris? The Eiffel Tower? The Louvre? Romance? Well, Divines
26. “Banlieusarde”1, the empowered (fe) male: man up! Gaining back her ...
... movie Divines directed by Ouda Benyamina (2016). Benyamina portrays a young ... The film shows the evolution of the main character Dounia and her best ...
This article will examine the representation of the second generation of immigrant women in their urban space in the movie Divines directed by Ouda Benyamina (2016). Benyamina portrays a young, yet determined, female, Dounia from a disadvantaged area on the edge of the projects, who lives with her mother and her cross-dressing uncle. Her identity eventually becomes a hybrid-gender (fe) male: the looks of a female with male personality attributes such as hustling, dealing drugs, and being a provider. Like her male counterpart, she has the agency to create a specific representation by telling or showing her own story. I will explore how resistance becomes a protective shell for the female protagonist that allows her to create a macho violence as a survival strategy in her own space. How does female agency, articulated through a thematic of space lead to a reconstruction of the female body and identity? I argue that the French underrepresented female situates herself in relation to Republican hegemonic discourses by adopting a double-gender status and a double-space status. Space in Divines challenges the gender problematic since it is focused on a strictly male environment of the projects that she attempts to dominate at all costs. Changing her space is changing the view of her male counterparts but, most of all, changing the condition of these femmes de l’ombre. That allows her to regain this violence into power to survive and to renegotiate her space in French society.
27. Divines Movie Script
She won the Cannes Film Festival Camera d'Or and César Award for Best First Feature Film for her 2016 film Divines. Benyamina was born in Viry-Châtillon ...
Read, review and discuss the entire Divines movie script by Houda Benyamina on Scripts.com