Cairo Time - 5 of 5 stars

Ran across this film made in 2008 at 89 min movie because it co starred my favorite Star Trek actor,Alexander Siddig as Tareq.Now this is a very interesting and different kind of love story.Maybe its because of Siddig or maybe because I just happened upon it during the upheaval in Cairo's Tahrir Square,of which this film has NOTHING to do with,but it was very moving to me.As the film opens Juliette (Patricia Clarkson)arrives at Cairo's airport to meet her husband,but he was detained and sent his friend and former employee Tareq to pick her up.Her husband works for the UN and has been detained at a Gaza refugee camp for a unexplained reason.Juliette who we later learn is from Texas and has 2 grown and married children, is enthralled with the exotic city and Tareq acts as her guide.We also learn he had a affair ,while in college in Syria, with a woman but never followed it through,and has carried a torch for her since.She nows lives in Alexandria Egypt and her daughter is getting married.Juliette see's most of Cairo except for the pyramids which she wanted badly to see with her husband.Tareq also owns a "men only"coffee shop which Juliette easily intergrates.There are many examples of the clash between Muslim and Western customs both humorous and in the case of a Israeli stop of a bus Juliette was on trying to go to Gaza,a little frightning.That however is not what this film is about,although they are welcomed ingredants.What it is about is after returning from Alexandra to Cairo and a train trip we see that indeed something has happened between Juliette and Tareq.
In fact they go to the pyramids together and well,no they don't make love,Juliette's husband arrives just in the nick of time.Still they are both left with something deep and different and joyishly sad,if you get my meaning.Truly a VERY different and haunting love story set in a land rich for such dreams.Love is not strong enough to describe how I feel about this film.
As usual a link URL is below the pix
http://www.opendrive.com/files/22310291_Ukcz0/15%20Cairo%20Time.mp3

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi4120643097/