FILM REVIEW: Cairo Time
August 30th, 2010© A.J. Malouin 2010
(Rating: 6 by A.J. Malouin, and “sorry” by his companion.) (See our side-bar page “How We Rate Movies”)
(2009/Canada/Ireland/Egypt. Directed [and written by Ruba Nadda.)
One of the great hallmarks of a great film is that it makes you want to go where the action is. All during our viewing of “Cairo Time” I wanted to do was leave the theatre and go directly to Cairo.
Even if Patricia Clarkson was not still there.
These are the two stars of this film: Clarkson and Cairo.
Clarkson plays a middle-age journalist landing in Cairo to meet up with her husband Mark, a U.N. worker who is delayed for several weeks, while Clarkson’s character malingers, hotel-bound.
She is rescued from her malaise by Tareq Khalifa, a handsome Muslim who is a friend of her husband’s.
The inevitable happens…although we do not see exactly why this should be. Clarkson’s character, it seems, is seduced by the city of Cairo more so than by Tareq, the fellow who displays it all for her. Read the rest of this entry »