There’s a nice feel to this drama. Patricia Clarkson plays a Canadian who’s supposed to meet her husband, a UN worker, in the Egyptian capital. He is delayed, and so she is alone, but finds herself sometimes in the company of her husband’s Arab friend (Alexander Siddig), who had met her upon arrival. The nice feel comes from Clarkson, a fine actress who registers a both a sense of being lost and a tentative openness to the unfamiliar. It comes from a lot of nice scenery. And it comes from the way Ruba Nadda’s film is shot, with lots of scenes of quiet, calmness, sunsets, and desert. And from Siddig’s gentlemanly, dignified character. And from the subtlety of things not being said. For me, there were at least one too many scenes of meetings in coffee shops with things not being said. But, a nice feel.
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viewed on video June 2013
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