UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15681141
Format:
80 Min. : s/w
Content:
Ossama Fawzi's ghoulish satire, ''Fallen Angels Paradise,'' goes where few films have gone before by suggesting that life in society's lower depths can be a loathsome kind of utopia. That doesn't mean the movie's portrayal of Cairo's grubby street life is at all sanitized. The gamblers, prostitutes and petty thieves who brawl at the drop of a hat and rattle around the city in a battered pickup truck are a brutal, unscrupulous lot. What they share is a manic, knockabout zest for life along with an utter contempt and disregard for middle-class convention. The central joke of this gleefully subversive comedy is that its main character is a corpse. On a typically rowdy evening, three neighborhood ruffians return to the seedy cafe where they hang out all day gambling and fighting and discover that the fourth member of their little clique, a dissipated pimp and street hustler named Tabel (Mahmoud Hemida), has died in his chair. He has a bottle in his hand and a smirk on his face. (New York Times)
Note:
Ländercode: Keine Angabe
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Orig.: Ägypten, 1999
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Engl. Untertitel
In:
Scheherazade, tell me a story : gender war in egypt: a film about women who fight back ; [DVD-Video], New York, NY, Chicago, Ill., [ca. 2012], (2012)
Language:
Arabic
Author information:
Amado, Jorge
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