Bộ phim về tình yêu, giải phóng và khoan dung của Hafsia Herzi với sự tham gia của Nadia Melliti là một trong những bộ phim được nhắc đến nhiều nhất trong những ngày trước cuộc thi giành giải Cành cọ vàng. Dưới đây là tóm tắt từ cuộc họp báo mà chúng tôi đã tham dự với toàn bộ dàn diễn viên và đoàn làm phim.
"Hi friends in this beautiful backdrop in Cannes I wanted to tell you more about a movie called La petite dernière which translates to the little or the young last one. It's a French movie I attended the press conference for and I'm looking forward to watching the screener here in Cannes and it's in competition and I think it's gonna be one of the strong ones in you know in the in the fight for the Palme d'Or. In the press conference we got the full crew and cast including director Hafsia Herzi and writer of the original book Fátima Daas. The all-women team was sitting on the table at the press conference room at the Palais here in Cannes and of course we also had the star Nadia Melliti who stars as Fatima the protagonist answering to our questions. The movie is called La petite dernière because it follows Fatima who is the youngest of three daughters and it's a story about emancipation, tolerance and love. Both the director and the producer of the movie admitted that they were overwhelmed literally by the book by Fatima Daas which was adapted to this movie. Herzi prepared two different scripts for the movie and presented them to the to the writer for overview and approval and she said that she always wanted to respect the source material and also that she has she had to harass the writer a little bit for her to come back and to and to decide the final script for the movie. Being about love and tolerance as I said the movie is also about the love between women both mother and her daughter and also homosexual love between two women."
"It also deals with the clash of cultures, the Muslim community and the issues within it. The author said there is a lot of love in silence in the way they deal with these issues both in the book and in the movie and the movie is said to have a lot of visual message being conveyed through the way the actors move and relate and the way it's visually shown on a screen. The director said she always dreamed of being selected for the official Cannes competition and she is extremely excited and happy to be here and to compete for the for the Pandora."
"Asked about the chemistry between the two actors, Jeanine Park who is a secondary actress here said that the moment that she met Nadia Militi for the first time she felt an immediate emotional attraction to her that was reciprocal and that it of course helped the shooting of the movie and the chemistry between the actors on screen. Finally as a funny anecdote Hersey said that she had watched video clips of Militi playing football and that she was shocked at her skills and that she wanted that part, the sportiness of the character to be included in the movie no matter what so that's why in the movie compared to the book there is a sporting side to the protagonist. That is all from me about La Petite Dernière as a preview. I'm looking forward to watching the movie and as I said it's going to be a big one when it comes to competing for the Palme d'Or so see you later with more on this movie at Gamereactor."