Cairo Time
Cairo Time is a subtle and beautifully crafted film. Writer/director Ruba Nadda is a young filmmaker of Arabic heritage, now based in Toronto. She was inspired by her own journeys to Cairo, and became determined to freshly capture the city's allure on screen. She has definitely achieved her goal.
Belinda Hazleton, Film Ink
Cairo Time has three stars: the luminous Patricia Clarkson, the lanky, gentle Alexander Siddig ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," and Syriana), and the city of Cairo itself, sprawled out around and between them at every moment. It's one of those movies in which the very air -- its smells and warmth -- seems to emanate from the screen. The movie is almost a travelogue, except that Nadda is smart enough to include glimpses of the city's ugliness as well as its beauty, as well as acknowledging the uneasy, necessary balance between the two. It's a movie of moments, good ones and bad ones, all coming one after another, just like life.
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
Duration: 90 min
Dialogue: English, Arabic
Subtitles: English
Age limit: K11
