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In the Last Days of the City

Akher ayam el madina

2016

Tamer El Said

Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Hanan Youssef, Maryam Saleh, Hayder Helo

6.3

48

Drama A documentary filmmaker in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film, so his friends send him footage from the cities they live in: Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin.

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"A city requiem rather than a city symphony, Tamer El Said's film offers a plangent, multi-layered dirge to the sensory overload of Cairo and the way it has irrevocably changed."	POS
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A dense mood piece captures a key moment in Egypt (...) Beautifully lensed and complexly edited"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] is a densely textured, contemplative, beautifully shot film in a self-reflexive, docu-realist style (...) It’s a melancholy, interesting film, slightly opaque (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Steve Macfarlane Slant	"El Said’s film carries the weight of unmistakable historical hindsight; that said, the moment-to-moment viewing experience skews closer to free association (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"This vibrant portrait of Cairo on the cusp of the Arab Spring is saved by the director’s obvious affection for the city, and by the eerie sense of visiting a now-vanished place (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"Tamer El Said shoots in a fluid way as if this is a poetic travelogue shot by a local resident. The film benefits from Khalid Abdalla’s soulful performance (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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