Scheherazade Tell Me a Story (2011)
Average Rating: 7.6/10
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Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 1
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Cairo, today. Hebba, a television show host, presents a successful political talk show on a privately owned network. Karim, her husband, is deputy editor in chief of a government-owned newspaper. He is led to believe by the party leaders, that his wife's constant meddling with opposition politics could put his promotion in danger. Using his boyish charm and sexual prowess, he convinces Hebba to stay away from politics, and devote her program to social issues for which the government cannot be
Aug 12, 2011 Limited
ArtMattan Productions
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Cast
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Mona Zaki
Hebba -
Mahmoud Hemeida
Adham -
Hassan El Raddad
Karim -
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Nahed El Sebaï
Hanaa -
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Lively, swift, vibrantly colorful and for the most part wonderfully acted, the film is slyly aware of the daytime talk show as a vehicle for women's concerns.
Top CriticNasrallah's artistry is ultimately incapable of matching his narrative's social significance.
"Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story" is a powerful indictment of misogyny that overturns stereotypes about Egypt through the dramatic stories women recount on a television show.
Together with scribe Waheed Hamed, helmer Yousry Nasrallah presents women's sexuality as an expression of self-determination, making clear the parallels with an ever-degenerating political system.
An urgent political statement that's also a funny, sexy entertainment.
A scathing update of the Thousand And One Nights classic of a queen's bid to stay alive through unique female survival instincts linked to the gift of gab. And a film that was surely a political prophesy, of the historic Tahrir Square uprisings to come.
A clarion call for the Middle East to emerge from the Middle Ages!
Scheherazade brims with faith in storytelling as art's great way of lifting society's veils.
Read in terms of a pure melodrama the movie is wrenching.
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Foreign Titles
- Scheherazade, Tell Me A Story (Ehky ya Scheherazade) (DE)
- Scheherazade, Tell Me A Story (Ehky ya Scheherazade) (UK)
