Cairo Station
Emotion Pictures: International Melodrama
December 13, 2017 - January 7, 2018
The longtime leading light of Egyptian cinema, Youssef Chahine established his international reputation with this bombshell psychosexual tale of tale of lust, jealousy, madness, and murder, which blends gritty neorealism with deep-dish noir-melodrama.
The longtime leading light of Egyptian cinema, Youssef Chahine established his international reputation with this bombshell psychosexual shocker. The director stars as Qinawi, a simpleton newspaper hawker whose obsession with a sultry cold-drink seller (Hind Rostom, the “Marilyn Monroe of Arabia”) leads to tragedy of operatic proportions on the streets of Cairo. Blending elements of neorealism (a grim, grubby evocation of working-class life and socioeconomic struggle) with deep-dish noir-melodrama (lust, jealousy, madness, and murder), Cairo Station represented something startlingly new in Arab cinema: here was raw, populist poetry splashed across the screen with blood-and-guts savagery.
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