Review of Cairo Time (2009) by Joo-Hyun O — 03 Nov 2010
Patricia Clarkson is without a doubt one of the best actresses working today, and she creates something artistically vital and beautiful out of this delicate romance. Clarkson plays Juliette, a magazine editor from Canada arriving in Cairo to meet up with her husband Mark (Tom McCamus). The two plan to see the Pyramids together, but Mark's work at the U.N. forces him to oversee the situation at a volatile refugee camp in Gaza. Mark decides to put Juliette in the care of his Egyptian colleague Tareq (Alexander Siddig, excellent).
You may think you know exactly what's coming from there, but then the gifted writer-director Ruba Nadda makes sure to keep springing surprises. Nadda allows Cairo's beauty seep into Juliette's world, and thus our own. The result is hypnotic, and Clarkson's astonishingly nuanced performance is ebullient, and one the should not go unnoticed come awards time.
This review of Cairo Time (2009) was written by Joo-Hyun O on 03 Nov 2010.
Cairo Time has generally received positive reviews.
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