What makes this artless enterprise rather of-the-moment, and therefore able to be taken seriously by a festival like Cannes, is that its would-be female payback theme technically plays into the present political climate of women taking charge of the sexual equation, an issue heightened here because the teenage characters are all French Muslims.
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Written by the director together with Anne Sophie Nanki, Souad Arsane, Inas Chanti, Mehdi Dahmane and Sidi Mejai, the story hinges on a question: in the absence of her sister, Rim, what was Yasmina doing in a car park with their boyfriends Salim and Majid? The two young women are in overdrive, too — though one of them, at least, gets the chance to wake up.