'

In the Last Days of the City

Play trailer

2:18

In the Last Days of the City

Released Apr 27, 2018

1h 59m

Drama

Play Trailer

Watchlist

Watchlist

Tomatometer

Popcornmeter

80%

Tomatometer

25 Reviews

89%

Popcornmeter

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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.

Watch on Fandango at Home

Buy Now

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

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

Read More

Read Less

POST RATING

WRITE A REVIEW

EDIT REVIEW

Tamer El Said

Director

Khalid Abdalla

Khalid

Laila Samy

Laila

Hanan Youssef

Hanan

Mariam Saleh Saad

Maryam

Hayder Helo

Hassan

Destined

29%

78%

Destined

Watchlist

TRAILER

for Destined

Actor Martinez

82%

%

Actor Martinez

Watchlist

TRAILER

for Actor Martinez

Milton's Secret

42%

72%

Milton's Secret

Watchlist

TRAILER

for Milton's Secret

Wakefield

74%

52%

Wakefield

Watchlist

TRAILER

for Wakefield

Desert Dancer

30%

62%

Desert Dancer

Watchlist

Discover more movies and TV shows.

View More

Avengers: Infinity War Is Certified Fresh

In the Last Days of the City: Trailer 1

2:18

View more videos

View more photos

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

Most Popular at Home Now