Author: Deborah Young

A devout young Muslim woman struggles to reconcile faith with being lesbian in Hafsia Herzi’s ‘The Little Sister’, celebrating the LGBTQIA culture in Paris in its many aspects as it explores how religion and sexuality shape self-identity.

The final collaboration between Robin Campillo and Laurent Cantet, two masters of contemporary French cinema, strikes a warm Mediterranean high note with the well-heeled rebel Enzo, a 16-year-old boy pushing back blindly against his middle class origins.