Alexandria Again and Forever (Chahine, 1989): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 6.15pm
This screening is part of the Youssef Chahine season at BFI Southbank.
Chicago Reader review:
This dazzling 1989 instalment, the third of Egyptian director Youssef
Chahine’s autobiographical Alexandria quartet, can be seen independently
of the other two features; its writer-director stars as a famous
filmmaker very much like himself, happily married but also smitten first
with one of his young actors and then with a young actress he meets
(Yousra). Yousra played Chahine’s wife in the second part of the
trilogy, An Egyptian Story (1982), and the young actor in this film is based on Mohsen Mohiedine, who played Chahine as a young man in Alexandria, Why?
Filmed in sumptuous color, this is not only one of the most passionate
celebrations of bisexuality ever filmed, it’s also one of the funniest;
Chahine’s tap-dance duet with his lead actor on a movie set is
priceless.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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