I Love the Cinema: A Review of the Egyptian Film Arts by Heba Al-Wahali

2024-01-13 21:06:48

Arts – Heba Al-Wahali – I Love the Cinema, an Egyptian film produced in 2004, starring Mahmoud Hamida, Laila Alawi, and the child Youssef Othman. It was written by screenwriter Hani Fawzi, directed by Osama Fawzi, and produced by Hani Girgis Fawzi. It is a film with a predominantly comedic character, and the film’s main actor is Youssef Othman. It talks regarding a fanatical father and a wife who can no longer tolerate her husband’s behavior, so she cheats on him with a visual artist.

The film deals with the life of a Christian family consisting of a religiously strict Coptic Orthodox husband, a Protestant wife, a boy and a girl, and presents the social problems facing this family due to the husband’s “puritanical” view of religion. When this film was shown, it caused a great uproar. Lawyers and Christian clerics filed a lawsuit demanding that the film be stopped due to its mockery of the Christian faith.

The film received positive reactions from critics, as the writer in the weekly “Sabah Al-Khair” Issam Zakaria says that the film can be “understood on several levels,” as the course of the dramatic events can constitute “a scathing criticism of the puritanism of Coptic religious fundamentalism, along with the authoritarian puritanism in the family it represents.” The father and also the tyranny of political authority.”

The critic in the “Rose Al-Youssef” weekly, Tariq Al-Shennawi, believes that “the scenario written by Hani Fawzi was smooth, realistic, and beautiful, along with director Osama, who created a state of joy and enjoyment that is not devoid of depth at the level of thought and cinematic image.”

The film witnessed one of the most intense scenes of excitement between Laila Alawi and Mahmoud Hamida.

Heba Al Wahali

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