Dounia (Oulaya Amamra) and Maimouna (Déborah Lukumuena) are best friends in the Paris projects. They idolize Rebecca (Jisca Kalvanda), a hardcore girlboss drug dealer, for her flashy lifestyle and badass demeanor. Dounia especially sees Rebecca as a stand-in maternal figure and becomes ever more desperate for her approval.
I have straight up not been having a good time this month so the whole time I was watching this, I kept anticipating something bad happening to one or both girls but I didn't guess the specific thing which still sucker punched me. I'm not going to do spoilers but FYI, not a happy ending. It definitely lessened my enjoyment of the film, which sucks because the three actresses were phenomenal. Kalvanda was menacing and charismatic and Lukumuena's face was so expressive. I hope both have incredible careers ahead. But this was Amamra's movie and she took every scene. A tiny powerhouse.
So if you're in the mood for a depressing, feel-bad character drama, Divines is streaming on Netflix.
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