In this bracingly original take on the sexual initiation story, director Antoine Desrosières and his hilarious young actresses imagine what happens when two Muslim sisters in the French suburbs venture into the realm of internet hook-ups, daring to do what is forbidden—or “haram”—by Islamic law. Turning all the clichés about veiled girls on their heads, Haramiste is a delightfully irreverent cry for emancipation, as well as an engagingly warm picture of sisterhood and curiosity in the digital age.
