Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Mihai Toma A woman (Juliette) visits her husband in Cairo but, because he is a very busy man, his retired friend (Tareq) is asked to take care of her while he's gone. In the absence of her husband, she starts exploring while getting a bit into trouble along the way. Luckily, Tareq is always there to save her, determined to make her stay as pleasant as possible. An unavoidable bond begins forming between them due to the extended time spent together but neither of them seems able to make the next step.It's a movie which has a great location for a romance but fails miserably to deliver it. Most of the movie, almost nothing happens, and when it does is as boring as it gets, nothing more than a few words are spoken. To be frank, I have seen a lot of documentaries which have a lot more "action" than this, fact which is simply unbearable for this type of movie.It is a complete waste of time which had a little opportunity to regain a bit of dignity with its finale but, as expected, in fails badly in that part as well. A bad movie, which wastes time instead of doing what a movie should do.

skinnybert An example of concept triumphing over delivery. Ruba Nadda has a lot she wants to say, but only raises signposts towards those ideas without really exploring any of them. Best moment: Alec Siddig acknowledging Patricia's superiority in a game of chess ... which, like everything else in this film, goes unresolved.Otherwise: Banal dialog, many loose threads, and an annoyingly empty protagonist make this a 90-minute wait where not much really happens. Banal dialog? 50% of Patricia's dialog consists of "I'm fine", "Yes, "No", OK" etc. "I'm fine" alone is said some dozen times or more. Loose threads? One example, of many: she spends a day with a girlfriend who characterizes all Arabic men as possessive in relationships ... a theme never developed or returned to. Neither is the friend; she simply disappears, as do all characters besides Siddig's.Here's a tip for Americans traveling abroad: when armed soldiers stop your bus, and the person sitting next to you -- who you only just met -- frantically pushes an envelope into your possession, it's probably very dangerous to accept it. Does she? Is it? What will happen? Is this an Alfred Hitchcock film? Well, here's my "spoiler": Absolutely nothing in this film leads to anything. There are no causes, no consequences, no changes nor efforts to do so. No story. Beautifully filmed though. And you do get to see the Pyramids (and even climb them, which is not actually permitted in real life).6/10 for Alec Siddig, locations, photography.

filmalamosa A UN employee's wife Juliette finds herself alone in Cairo. An Egyptian Tareq who worked with her husband and is now retired and runs a coffee shop--shows her around the city. They become attracted to each other.This unlikely silly story provides a mechanism for showing a judiciously pretty upped Cairo. Since I had a big interest in Cairo this worked rather well for me.Ignore the story and watch the scenery. It all works the music is nice the acting and the story can be sublimated into something better than it is.As for the prettied up Cairo....it gives you a flavor of things so you want to see more.RECOMMEND as a Travelogue only

gfullerton21 I really liked viewing the scenery around Cairo.But... the plot and execution of the story just make no sense. Juliette (Patricia Clarkson) goes to Cairo to meet up with her husband, but is left stranded in Cairo when her husband has pressing issues to deal with as the U.N. manager of a refugee camp in Gaza. Apparently her husband has been involved in such activities for a long time. One would think that Juliette, would have TALKED to her husband and would have SOME knowledge of the culture into which she is arriving. But NO! Not only that, she is supposedly an editor of a major magazine dealing with cultural issues, and one would THINK, that in that role she would know something about differences in culture. But NO! Juliette in Cairo and has not a clue as how to dress, where to go, what to do or NOT to do. And once she has encountered problems with the way she dresses, she continues to dress inappropriately and violate cultural norms. She even seems to have a new and inappropriate stylish outfit for each scene! How did such a stupid woman get to be an editor of a major magazine? The whole plot is incredulous! Nevertheless, I was actually happy to see the movie and the scenery just not the scenes.