Yacoubian Building (2006)
(Omaret yakobean)
Country: EGY
Technical: col 161m
Director: Marwen Hamed
Cast: Zaki El Dessouki, Haj Azzam, Christine, Dawlat El Dessouky
Synopsis:
Four interlocking stories centre on the eponymous Cairo apartment building, once built to rival the most lavish and exclusive architecture of Paris, now an emblem of the decadence at the heart of Egyptian society.
Review:
Prestigious, nationally highly successful and notorious film of a bestselling novel; its characters hold the attention throughout its considerable length and it is put together with some style, though succumbing to some melodramatic excesses for western tastes.
(Omaret yakobean)
Country: EGY
Technical: col 161m
Director: Marwen Hamed
Cast: Zaki El Dessouki, Haj Azzam, Christine, Dawlat El Dessouky
Synopsis:
Four interlocking stories centre on the eponymous Cairo apartment building, once built to rival the most lavish and exclusive architecture of Paris, now an emblem of the decadence at the heart of Egyptian society.
Review:
Prestigious, nationally highly successful and notorious film of a bestselling novel; its characters hold the attention throughout its considerable length and it is put together with some style, though succumbing to some melodramatic excesses for western tastes.
(Omaret yakobean)
Country: EGY
Technical: col 161m
Director: Marwen Hamed
Cast: Zaki El Dessouki, Haj Azzam, Christine, Dawlat El Dessouky
Synopsis:
Four interlocking stories centre on the eponymous Cairo apartment building, once built to rival the most lavish and exclusive architecture of Paris, now an emblem of the decadence at the heart of Egyptian society.
Review:
Prestigious, nationally highly successful and notorious film of a bestselling novel; its characters hold the attention throughout its considerable length and it is put together with some style, though succumbing to some melodramatic excesses for western tastes.