Egypte - 1967 - 105’
Avec Souad Hosny, Shoukry Sarhane, Salah Mansour.
Pour avoir un héritier, un maire quinquagénaire décide, avec l'accord de sa femme riche, mais stérile, de prendre une seconde épouse. Leur choix tombe sur une de leur servantes, déjà mariée et mère de deux enfants. Attachée à son mari, celle-ci se révolte bientt contre cet abus de pouvoir.
In this Andre Gide adaptation, an activist is released after many years in prison and returns home, shaking up established relationships among his family members at the farm governed by his strict father. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.
My first short film, photography by James Laxton, as always. Still my favorite. Written shortly after 9/11, wasn't actually made for another year because of the way things shook out in school. Inspired by three things: the marquee of a Tallahassee laundromat shortly after 9/11 reading "American Flags Cleaned Free," an image in my head of two people sit...
Pierre, a young man of Brussels, has lost his job. Unbeknowst to Barbara, the woman he lives with, he has become a pickpocket to survive. He works in partnership with a young Tunisian immigrant he meets every Sunday in an abandoned bus where they share the loot of the week. One day, Pierre finds his accomplice dead in their hiding place. Pierre suddenly realizes that he does no...
