When Marieme establishes footing in a girl gang outside of Paris, she seems content to gain an identity she never was able to get from her traditional, broken family. A brother who treats her terribly eventually forces her to abandon her three girlfriends in the gang because she violates what he perceives as a cultural taboo. For every new life she embarks on, she makes a major hairdo change. By film’s end, she’s left with nothing, a victim of a nasty environment that offers no good choices. Forced by necessity to harden herself, she never gives up her right to be vulnerable, and eventually, however bleak her options, her own woman. Karidja Toure (Marieme) shows enough potential we may soon be hearing from her in a major way. And Rhianna’s “Diamonds,” sung with feeling by the girls wearing stolen outfits in a hotel room paid for with hustled cash, never sounded so (ironically) inspired