Remember this name: Mohamed Diab - ladies and gentlemen, we raise from our seats and great a great and fresh new voice from Egypt. The name again: Mohamed Diab.
678 is a bus line in crowded Cairo, just the perfect location for frotteurs or just plain gropers. They grope e.g. Fayza, a clerk in administration who therefore prefers to spend the money she doesn't have on taxi trips. There is Seba, who is raped after a football match. Her husband is devastated by this tragedy, maybe even more than she. It's not easy to be a macho in present-day Egypt. There is also Nelly , stand up comedian working in a call center.
The stories of these three women are interwoven. We see the reactions of the society (didn't they provoke the attack? better forget about the incidents .... )
Mohamed Diab makes it clear that sexual harassment is not a joke. At some points the good intentions might overshadow aesthetic considerations, but that didn't disturb me very much, as this film gave insight into aspects of Egyptian reality which I might never acquire as a traveler.
This is Arab Spring in the Cinema Hall -- a must see, which hopefully won't be just an incident in Egyptian cinema.
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| Watch the work of this man. The name again? Mohamed Diab! |
678 is a bus line in crowded Cairo, just the perfect location for frotteurs or just plain gropers. They grope e.g. Fayza, a clerk in administration who therefore prefers to spend the money she doesn't have on taxi trips. There is Seba, who is raped after a football match. Her husband is devastated by this tragedy, maybe even more than she. It's not easy to be a macho in present-day Egypt. There is also Nelly , stand up comedian working in a call center.
The stories of these three women are interwoven. We see the reactions of the society (didn't they provoke the attack? better forget about the incidents .... )
Mohamed Diab makes it clear that sexual harassment is not a joke. At some points the good intentions might overshadow aesthetic considerations, but that didn't disturb me very much, as this film gave insight into aspects of Egyptian reality which I might never acquire as a traveler.
This is Arab Spring in the Cinema Hall -- a must see, which hopefully won't be just an incident in Egyptian cinema.
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| 678 - a must see from Egypt! |
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