Cinema
Demons of the Asphalt
عفاريت الأسفلت
Ossama Fawzy · 1996
Synopsis
In a working-class neighbourhood, a family lives off a microbus driven, according to elCinema, by Abdallah, the patriarch's son, and his nephew Sayed; Al Jazeera sees three generations of drivers in it. Enchirah, Abdallah's sister, has remained without a husband. Behind closed doors, forbidden affairs multiply: Abdallah with a friend's widow, Enchirah with Ringo, Sayed with the barber's wife. One day Sayed proposes marrying his aunt to his friend Ringo.
Context
First feature film by Ossama Fawzy as well as by its screenwriter, Mostafa Zikri, the film was presented at the Locarno festival on 11 August 1996, where it received the jury prize, and was released in Egypt, restricted to adults, according to elCinema. Mahmoud Hemeida plays Sayed, with Gamil Ratib as Abdallah and Salwa Khattab as Enchirah; Tarek el-Telmissany was responsible for the photography and Rageh Daoud for the music, for the company Aflam Guirguis Fawzy. Mada Masr notes in it a choral and fatalistic narrative.
Who it is for
A feature film of two hours, in Egyptian Arabic, restricted to adults because of the frankness of its intimate scenes.
Prizes and reception
Awarded by the Locarno jury in 1996 and carried by Mahmoud Hemeida, it is the film that revealed its director.
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