A dying man's family feuds over his factory while his son blames his wife for a suicide — Egyptian melodrama at its messiest.
Contractor Mahmoud Abdel Majeed is afflicted with cancer, and his children hide the truth about his illness from him. This man has two sons, the eldest, Mukhtar, has a weak personality, while the younger son, Amin, does not covet his father’s money and lives in isolation with his wife, Gigi. She has many ambitions to transfer ownership of the factory to Amin, but he considers her... The reason his gay friend committed suicide.
Acting
Nour El-Sherif's brooding isolation versus Poussi's delicious manipulation.
Writing
The casual way queer suicide becomes a marital grenade.
Production
1970s Cairo bourgeoisie aesthetic, all mahogany and tension.
Director
Samir Seif
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film captures 1970s Egyptian cinema's obsession with inheritance disputes and the emerging urban bourgeoisie.
Gigi's name and ambitions suggest she's coded as 'modern' and threatening to traditional family structures.
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