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Overall Grade: A
Story: A
Acting: A
Direction: A
Visuals: A
What a Breath of Fresh Air!
by michellee (movies profile) (Aug 12, 2009)
I have not read the novel. However, I do plan on reading it, after having watched the film. I thought the story lines and the characters were well-studied.. The actors d... Full Review

Overall Grade: A-
Story: N/A
Acting: N/A
Direction: N/A
Visuals: N/A
Open Panorama for Cairo
by (movies profile) (Dec 20, 2007)
A big picture and collection of Cairo day to day life. Showing corruption of parliament people having authority and abuse it. Extremest, poverty ...everything....Worth to... Full Review

Overall Grade: F
Story: F
Acting: F
Direction: F
Visuals: F
bad
by egy (movies profile) (Aug 17, 2007)
very slow and lazy movie not like the original novel forget about it and read the original novel adel emam is a hypocrite who throuw the goverment with stones in his mo... Full Review

Overall Grade: F
Story: F
Acting: F
Direction: F
Visuals: F
worse than the original novel
by lycan l (movies profile) (Aug 17, 2007)
very bad abd depressing movie it's worthless comparing to alaa al aswany masterpiece novel you should ignore it at all  

Overall Grade: A+
Story: A+
Acting: A+
Direction: A+
Visuals: A+
best story
by amir (movies profile) (Mar 8, 2007)
it is one of the best egyptian stories,and alaa el aswani is a very talented writer,he talks in his novel about how egypt changed from 1952 till 2002  

Overall Grade: A+
Story: A+
Acting: A+
Direction: A+
Visuals: A+
Reality
by Hot dude (movies profile) (Nov 4, 2007)
Beautiful movie, sad but true. It depicts the reality of life in Egypt, great acting, outstanding story. Adel Imam was at his best.  

Overall Grade: C
Story: A-
Acting: B
Direction: B
Visuals: B-
flawed but worthy .............
by MohamedS (movies profile) (Feb 23, 2007)
1 of 4 people found this review helpful
An Egyptian movie that is based upon the novel "Jacobean building" written by Alaa al Aswany. The movie focuses on the corrupted and sexual life in Egypt during the 1990'... Full Review
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