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  • 2018
  • Big World Pictures
  • 1 h 58 m
  • 2018
  • Big World Pictures
  • 1 h 58 m

Summary Tamer El Said’s ambitious debut feature tells the fictional story of a filmmaker (Khalid Abdalla) from downtown Cairo as he struggles to capture the soul of a city on edge while facing loss in his own life. Shot in Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin during the two years before the outbreak of revolution in Egypt, the film’s multi-layered ...

Directed By: Tamer El Said

Written By: Rasha Salti, Tamer El Said

  • 2018
  • Big World Pictures
  • 1 h 58 m
  • 2018
  • Big World Pictures
  • 1 h 58 m

In the Last Days of the City

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Tamer El Said’s ambitious debut feature tells the fictional story of a filmmaker (Khalid Abdalla) from downtown Cairo as he struggles to capture the soul of a city on edge while facing loss in his own life. Shot in Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin during the two years before the outbreak of revolution in Egypt, the film’s multi-layered ...

Directed By: Tamer El Said

Written By: Rasha Salti, Tamer El Said

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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14% Mixed
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90
May 3, 2018
A soulful, atmospheric travelogue that toggles between immersing in and removing itself from the chaotic beauty of teeming humanity, El Said's movie gives a humming, on-the-edge metropolis its heart-pumping, reflective due.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 26, 2018
It is not easy to describe In the Last Days of the City, an immersive visual experience with a wisp of a story and a wellspring of ideas.
By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 23, 2018
The real achievement is how the film captures and holds a mood that develops and expands, with a yearning for what was and what might have been.
By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 23, 2018
Though the story is fictional, the imagery is grounded in a powerful documentary reality.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 26, 2018
Whether In the Last Days of the City ultimately comes together as a feature is open to debate, but this is a film of beauty and skill.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
63
Apr 23, 2018
By diagramming a vastly complicated metropolis like Cairo from an unabashedly first-person perspective, In the Last Days of the City interrogates middle-class privilege in a time of crisis as a series of either-ors: leaving for Europe or staying in Cairo, hiding at home or protesting in the streets, filming blindly or seeking retrenchment in broad certainty.
By Steve Macfarlane FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 23, 2018
It’s a melancholy, interesting film, slightly opaque, a cine-journal about the way youth is clouded by experience.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Zero Production, Sunny Land Film, Mengamuk Films [at], Autonomous
Release Date Apr 27, 2018
Duration 1 h 58 m
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Website https://www.hakkadistribution.com/hakka-film/les-derniers-jours-dune-ville/
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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