Alexandria, Again and Forever (1989)
(Iskanderija, kaman oue kaman)
Country: FR/EGY
Technical: col 100m
Director: Youssef Chahine, Khairiya A-Mansour
Cast: Youssef Chahine, Youssra, Amr Abdulgalil
Synopsis:
An Egyptian film director has trouble with his long-term lead actor and joins in an industry wide strike for democratic change.
Review:
Like an Egyptian Otto e mezzo, with the director looking back over his past work before starting afresh with a new muse, this unfortunately lacks Fellini's visionary qualities and moments of pathos. There are clumsy fantasia-like sequences devoted to local mythologies Alexander the Great and Antony and Cleopatra, a musical number inspired by Singing' in the Rain, and a pervading obsession with Shakespeare's Hamlet, but despite these cultural references one feels one is missing out on a lot. It is this failure to communicate to a world audience that must ultimately count against this most personal work.
(Iskanderija, kaman oue kaman)
Country: FR/EGY
Technical: col 100m
Director: Youssef Chahine, Khairiya A-Mansour
Cast: Youssef Chahine, Youssra, Amr Abdulgalil
Synopsis:
An Egyptian film director has trouble with his long-term lead actor and joins in an industry wide strike for democratic change.
Review:
Like an Egyptian Otto e mezzo, with the director looking back over his past work before starting afresh with a new muse, this unfortunately lacks Fellini's visionary qualities and moments of pathos. There are clumsy fantasia-like sequences devoted to local mythologies Alexander the Great and Antony and Cleopatra, a musical number inspired by Singing' in the Rain, and a pervading obsession with Shakespeare's Hamlet, but despite these cultural references one feels one is missing out on a lot. It is this failure to communicate to a world audience that must ultimately count against this most personal work.
(Iskanderija, kaman oue kaman)
Country: FR/EGY
Technical: col 100m
Director: Youssef Chahine, Khairiya A-Mansour
Cast: Youssef Chahine, Youssra, Amr Abdulgalil
Synopsis:
An Egyptian film director has trouble with his long-term lead actor and joins in an industry wide strike for democratic change.
Review:
Like an Egyptian Otto e mezzo, with the director looking back over his past work before starting afresh with a new muse, this unfortunately lacks Fellini's visionary qualities and moments of pathos. There are clumsy fantasia-like sequences devoted to local mythologies Alexander the Great and Antony and Cleopatra, a musical number inspired by Singing' in the Rain, and a pervading obsession with Shakespeare's Hamlet, but despite these cultural references one feels one is missing out on a lot. It is this failure to communicate to a world audience that must ultimately count against this most personal work.