Youssef Chahine's CAIRO STATION (1958) • Coming to Criterion in August! https://t.co/sZTbOaqxPh Chahine's established his international reputation with this masterpiece, which, though initially a commercial failure in Egypt, would become one of the most influential and
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The director himself stars as Kenawi, a disabled newspaper hawker whose obsession with a sultry drink seller (Hind Rostom, known as the “Marilyn Monroe of Arabia”) leads to tragedy of operatic proportions on the streets of Cairo.
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Blending elements of neorealism with provocative noir-melodrama, CAIRO STATION is a work of raw populist poetry that explores the individual’s search for a place in Egypt’s new postrevolutionary political order.
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