In the Last Days of the City

Name: In the Last Days of the City
Genre: Drama
Released: April 27, 2018
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Ali Subhi, Basim Hajar, Bassem Fayad, Hanan Youssef, Hayder Helo

2018

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Big World Pictures | Release Date: April 27, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Ali Subhi, Basim Hajar, Bassem Fayad, Hanan Youssef, Hayder Helo, Islam Kamal, Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Mariam Saleh Saad, Mohamed Gaber

Summary: Tamer El Said’s ambitious debut feature tells the fictional story of a filmmaker (Khalid Abdalla) from downtown Cairo as he struggles to capture the soul of a city on edge while facing loss in his own life. Shot in Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin during the two years before the outbreak of revolution in Egypt, the film’s multi-layeredTamer El Said’s ambitious debut feature tells the fictional story of a filmmaker (Khalid Abdalla) from downtown Cairo as he struggles to capture the soul of a city on edge while facing loss in his own life. Shot in Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin during the two years before the outbreak of revolution in Egypt, the film’s multi-layered stories are a visually rich exploration of friendship, loneliness and life in cities shaped by the shadows of war and adversity. [Big World Pictures]… Expand

Director: Tamer El Said

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 118 min

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Robert Abele

May 3, 2018

A soulful, atmospheric travelogue that toggles between immersing in and removing itself from the chaotic beauty of teeming humanity, El Said's movie gives a humming, on-the-edge metropolis its heart-pumping, reflective due. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

Apr 23, 2018

The real achievement is how the film captures and holds a mood that develops and expands, with a yearning for what was and what might have been. Read full review

Deborah Young

Apr 23, 2018

Though the story is fictional, the imagery is grounded in a powerful documentary reality. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Apr 26, 2018

It is not easy to describe In the Last Days of the City, an immersive visual experience with a wisp of a story and a wellspring of ideas. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Apr 26, 2018

Whether In the Last Days of the City ultimately comes together as a feature is open to debate, but this is a film of beauty and skill. Read full review

Steve Macfarlane

Apr 23, 2018

By diagramming a vastly complicated metropolis like Cairo from an unabashedly first-person perspective, In the Last Days of the City interrogates middle-class privilege in a time of crisis as a series of either-ors: leaving for Europe or staying in Cairo, hiding at home or protesting in the streets, filming blindly or seeking retrenchment in broad certainty. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Apr 23, 2018

It’s a melancholy, interesting film, slightly opaque, a cine-journal about the way youth is clouded by experience. Read full review

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