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The Nile Hilton Incident

2017

Tarik Saleh

Fares Fares, Tareq Abdalla, Yasser Ali Maher, Nael Ali ...

6.4

4,481

Thriller While investigating the murder of a beautiful singer, Detective Naredin becomes enmeshed in a game played out at the highest levels of Egyptian politics. Neither old nor new alliances can be trusted, and as the 2011 revolution approaches, Cairo is becoming more and more dangerous. The movie, which betrays a predilection for the noir tradition, won at Sundance.

	Media	Author	Review
		Justin Lowe The Hollywood Reporter	"'The Nile Hilton Incident' represents the type of penetrating filmmaking that only a writer-director intimately familiar with Egyptian culture but possessing an outsider's perspective could convincingly accomplish."
		Nick Schager Variety	"A paranoid portrait of individual and systemic corruption that leaves none of its characters unscarred."
		Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"It hits a lot of familiar beats (...) Tarik Saleh follows narrative procedure at a slow burn—too slow of a burn—and the story fails to resonate aside from its finale"
		Ken Jaworowski The New York Times	"It’s horribly fascinating to watch (...) The trouble with the movie — and it’s significant — is that Mr. Saleh is so keen to survey Egypt’s dysfunction that his pacing wanes."
		Ed Gonzalez Slant	"Tarik Saleh’s film gives a casually electric sense of how hardscrabble lives persist in times of war (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"An unsparing portrait of Egypt before the revolution (...) You understand why everyday Egyptians were fed up enough to take to the streets and demand change."
		Lee Marshall Screendaily	"This is a good-looking package, with Krister Linder’s pulsating electronic soundtrack and veteran French DoP Pierre Aim’s depiction of a user-unfriendly urban jungle"

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