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Cairo time - Patricia Clarkson, Alexander Siddig, Elena Anaya, Ruba Nadda

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Movie propaganda

Juliette (Patricia Clarkson), a magazine editor, travels to Cairo to meet her husband, Mark (Tom McCamus), a UN official working in Gaza, for a three week vacation. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq (Alexander Siddig), who had been his security officer for many years, to escort her throughout the beautiful and exotic city. The last thing anyone expects is that they will fall in love.

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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film drama romance Egypt sand pyramid UN married woman affair friend love Egyptian

Persons of interest

Patricia Clarkson .... Juliette Grant
Alexander Siddig .... Tareq Khalifa
Elena Anaya .... Kathryn
Tom McCamus .... Mark
Amina Annabi .... Yasmeen
Andrew Cullen .... Jim
Mona Hala .... Jameelah
Fadia Nadda .... Hanan
Ruba Nadda .... Screenwriter
Ruba Nadda .... Director

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Awards and film festivals:

Toronto International Film Festival 2009: Won: Best Canadian Feature Film (Ruba Nadda)

Studios and distributors:

Paramount Pictures * Transmission Films

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Cairo time is an old-fashioned romance with the racy overtone of forbidden love. A Christian and a Moslem. A married woman and the friend of her husband. An Asian man and a Caucasian woman. A guest and a host. A white-bread, Western world and the exotic Middle East. Cool ice and hot fire. In some respects this is a Golden Age of Hollywood movie that could've been played by Deborah Kerr and Omar Sharif, so it's always in danger of becoming clichéd. What stops it from becoming so is the delicious tension that builds and builds over the course of the film, and not once do you know how it's going to turn out.

Because the film progresses so slowly (one could say andante) and because every role is subtly delivered, only an adult audience will be able to enjoy it. This is a caress, not a shag. Patricia Clarkson and Alexander Siddig have a chemistry that oozes sensuality. It's like watching an ice cream melting in the sun. So sweet. Mmm...

The drama, romance movie Cairo time is directed by Ruba Nadda and stars Patricia Clarkson, Alexander Siddig, Elena Anaya.