wander away
their days, or fail to do errands, or walk the dog. They live in a neighborhood
which has seen better days and in the film the state of Heliopolis represents
the old cosmopolitan Egyptian way of life which has been lost. All reviews
describe this as nostalgic film and it is hard to get away from that when one
character is a graduate student looking for old folks to interview about days
gone by and pulling out his digicam to film crumbling buildings and family
businesses that may soon go under. The first thing you need to know is that
nothing really happens so if you need to duck out for a few minutes, don’t worry. A
doctor walks his dog and thinks about moving away to be with his
mother, a hotel clerk pretends to her parents that she has moved to Paris, a
sentry befriends a puppy and an engaged couple have a bad time while trying to
buy a fridge. The drama is minimal but it is an atmospheric movie about cities
and memory which should be of interest to Geist fans.

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