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In the Last Days of the City

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In downtown Cairo in 2009, Khalid, a 35-year-old filmmaker struggles to make a film that captures the soul of his city while facing loss in his own life. With the help of his friends who send him footage from their lives in Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin, he finds the strength to keep going through the difficulty and beauty of living in Cairo.
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Critics Reviews

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Tom Long Detroit News "In the Last Days of the City" may be a purposely amorphous portrait of a city in flux, but it's also somewhat anxiously, irritatingly overloaded. Rated: C Sep 28, 2018 Full Review Jeff Reichert Film Comment Magazine There's a pleasing formal confusion that enlivens In the Last Days of the City, the years-in-the-works directorial debut feature of Egyptian filmmaker Tamer El Said. May 3, 2018 Full Review Robert Abele Los Angeles Times The air is thick with tension, regret, and promise in the Cairo of "In the Last Days of the City," the plaintive, remarkably self-assured debut feature from Egyptian director Tamer El Said. May 2, 2018 Full Review Joe Friar The Victoria Advocate There is a poetic aura that drives El Said's visually stunning debut. The performances are so natural that the film within a film feels like an actual documentary. Rated: 3.5/4 Oct 28, 2018 Full Review George Elkind Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Functioning better as a stream of images than a character-driven narrative, El Said's two-hour time capsule captures the streets and alleyways of Cairo with an intimately familiar hand. Sep 27, 2018 Full Review Josh Terry Deseret News (Salt Lake City) "Last Days of the City" is a moody film, only lightly guided by plot, and often more concerned with atmosphere than story. Rated: 2.5/4 Jun 1, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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assem k The beauty and subtlety are abounding, inasmuch as they account for the underdevelopment; but they were almost wasted by the simplistic interpretations El Said insisted on interspersing to make a case for his credo. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Extremely long and boring. Understand the point being made but this movie could have been an hour and we wouldn’t have missed anything Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 06/05/18 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis In downtown Cairo in 2009, Khalid, a 35-year-old filmmaker struggles to make a film that captures the soul of his city while facing loss in his own life. With the help of his friends who send him footage from their lives in Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin, he finds the strength to keep going through the difficulty and beauty of living in Cairo.
Director
Tamer El Said
Producer
Khalid Abdalla, Tamer El Said
Screenwriter
Tamer El Said, Rasha Salti
Distributor
Big World Pictures
Production Co
Big World Pictures
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Arabic
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 27, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
May 29, 2019
Runtime
1h 59m
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