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  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 51 m

Summary Weeks before the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Noredin (Fares Fares), a police officer in Cairo’s corrupt system, investigates the murder of a famous club singer at the Nile Hilton Hotel. What initially seems to be a crime of passion turns into something that concerns the very power elite of Egypt. Upon realizing this, Noredin decides to bre...

Directed By: Tarik Saleh

Written By: Magdi Abdelhadi, Tarik Saleh

  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 51 m

The Nile Hilton Incident

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
70
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 19 User Ratings
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Summary Weeks before the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Noredin (Fares Fares), a police officer in Cairo’s corrupt system, investigates the murder of a famous club singer at the Nile Hilton Hotel. What initially seems to be a crime of passion turns into something that concerns the very power elite of Egypt. Upon realizing this, Noredin decides to bre...

Directed By: Tarik Saleh

Written By: Magdi Abdelhadi, Tarik Saleh

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
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25% Mixed
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91
Aug 10, 2017
The whole thing feels a bit like an Arabic riff on "Chinatown" or "L.A. Confidential" — a neonoir with a tawdry edge where our imperfect hero will eventually be doomed. It’s not a question of if, only when he will lose.
By Chris Nashawaty FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 5, 2018
A story with all the qualities of a classic LA noir is given a very effective spin by transposing it to politically charged Cairo. It’s angry, frustrated and thrilling.
By Olly Richards FULL REVIEW

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16% Mixed
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arrivist
Oct 5, 2018
Superb from start to finish. Brilliantly written, directed and some great natural acting. The soundtrack is excellent also.
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DawdlingPoet
Nov 25, 2021
This is quite a tense and claustrophobic watch. Its the sort of film which makes you wonder what people motivations may be, or have been and it keeps you guessing. Its understandably rather grim and gritty and is a worthwhile watch overall.
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80
Aug 9, 2017
Like the finest noir, what springs forth from Saleh’s film is the dreary belief that the bad sleep well while the rest are left to suffer in the streets.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 31, 2017
As doomed as Noredin’s actions often seem, they’re tinged with enough simmering humanity to keep us caring.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
63
Aug 9, 2017
The film may not reimagine our sense of how the ties that bind bad men are rewritten in times of war, but it nonetheless gives a casually electric sense of how hardscrabble lives persist in such times.
By Ed Gonzalez FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 10, 2017
The trouble with the movie — and it’s significant — is that Mr. Saleh is so keen to survey Egypt’s dysfunction that his pacing wanes. It’s possible to admire each scene and still see this film, in its entirety, as in need of some serious sharpening.
By Ken Jaworowski FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 9, 2017
The Nile Hilton Incident, despite a stylish, seedy coating, fails to even come close to the canon of greats that have influenced it.
By Kristen Yoonsoo Kim FULL REVIEW
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7
JLuis_001
Nov 28, 2017
Fares Fares starring in a thriller full of mystery, those that I like so much and this movie has quality and a very interesting noir style and above all it's a good movie to soften the wait for the fourth installment of Department Q.
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bataguila
May 14, 2019
Es buena para aprender, ver como es el cairo, y su cultura corrupta, pero la historia de policias y malos, es muy pobre.
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Production Company Atmo Production, Ostlicht Filmproduktion, Final Cut for Real, Film i Väst, Nordsvensk Filmunderhållning, Sveriges Television (SVT), Chimney, Scanbox Sweden AB, Copenhagen Film Fund, Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), Eurimages, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), Det Danske Filminstitut, West Danish Film Fund, Co Made, Den Vestdanske Filmpulje, Jardman Haris Productions, Kasbah Films, La Voie Lactée, Metrix Media
Release Date Aug 11, 2017
Duration 1 h 51 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.newwavefilms.co.uk/view-film-detail.html/?viewListing=MTU4&cat=1
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Awards

Guldbagge Awards
• 5 Wins & 8 Nominations
Valladolid International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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