Cairo Time at IFC
An American woman travels to a very foreign land. As time passes, she trades her standoffish naivete for acceptance that life elsewhere cannot and will not resemble life at home. She lets this lesson affect her, and she too becomes something she cannot or could not be at home. She makes friends, some more than that. Unlike Eat Pray Love's Elizabeth, however, Cairo Time's Juliette doesn't get everything she wants. Her love story ends.
During a Q&A after a recent screening at the IFC Center, Patricia Clarkson, who plays Juliette, mentioned that two of her best friends had just seen the movie. While one called it a "tragedy of restraint," the other thought it was "a triumph of restraint." The director, Ruba Nadda, cited Jane Austen as an influence, but perhaps Henry James would have been more appropriate, given the inability of Juliette and Tareq, her guide in Cairo, to act on their feelings for one another. So sexy is Tareq that both Clarkson and Nadda admitted to developing crushes on Alexander Siddig, the Sudanese-English actor who plays him. Nevertheless the movie belongs to Clarkson and to Cairo, both a little worn by the past, yet so very, very lovely.
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During a Q&A after a recent screening at the IFC Center, Patricia Clarkson, who plays Juliette, mentioned that two of her best friends had just seen the movie. While one called it a "tragedy of restraint," the other thought it was "a triumph of restraint." The director, Ruba Nadda, cited Jane Austen as an influence, but perhaps Henry James would have been more appropriate, given the inability of Juliette and Tareq, her guide in Cairo, to act on their feelings for one another. So sexy is Tareq that both Clarkson and Nadda admitted to developing crushes on Alexander Siddig, the Sudanese-English actor who plays him. Nevertheless the movie belongs to Clarkson and to Cairo, both a little worn by the past, yet so very, very lovely.
Photo: thanks
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