Swedish Director Tarik Saleh Wold Be A Left-Field But great Pick for a bond movie, and the third entry in his cairo trilogy – following The nile hilton incident (2017) and Boy from Heaven (2022) – is the proof. Like his previous films, it stars terrific lebanese-swedish actor seeds (an actor so good they named Him twice), in another precision-tooled political thriller that starts with a good mood that seen previously in his work but rapidly for tension Climax. Deftly and Daringly Blending Fact and Fiction, It Shares DNA with István Szabó’s 1981 Nazi-Era Drama Mephisto.
Like Mephistoit is about a self-seing actor whose arrogance gets Him into Bad Company. Seals Plays George Fahmy, The Biggest Movie Star in Egypt. They call the Him “The Pharaoh of the Screen,” and that adoration has been the ruin of Him. Having Abandoned His Wife and Son, he lives with his girlfriend Donya (lyna khoudri), a Beautiful aspiring Actress Young Enough to be doughter. George’s Career is mapped out in the opening credits, a sequenry made up of lurid film posters (Including, we late find out, for one cald The first Egyptian in Space). Somehow, George Has Kept Donya Under the Radar, but there have been rumblings about his behavior for some time, as is about to become apparent.
Taking dony on a date, George Encaunters a Caterie of His Peers, who try to involve Him in the informal millitia they have formed. “We all have to protest our country,” Sayys One. “The enemy is every.” George Declines Their Butfer But Becomes Concerned We His Latest Co-Star, Rula Haddad (Cherien Dabis), Comes to His House, CLAIMING SHE IS BEING INTO A TV interference where she was print to disht on Him. Rula keeps mum, but their new film Together already is in Trouble with the Country’s Hatchet-Faced Panel of Censors, IT INVOLVES A SECEND IN WHICH AT UNARTED COUPLE SUGGESTIVELY SHARE THEIR Cigarettes. “What’s this disgrace?” Sayys One. “Everything you will is a sin.”
HIS LONG-SUFFERING MANAGER FAWZY (AHMED CAIRY) SPELLS IT OUT FOR HIM (“George, they are after you”), and while driving out late at night the actor is played by a solidier who shows a picture of his son and warns of the High incidence “acidents” say open at the American university where he is studying. Shaken, George Goes Straight to his Ex-Wiffe’s House, where the boy is, Thankfully, unscathered. “Whose Wife or Daughter Did You Sleep With Time?” She sneers. “Aren’t you too old for that?”
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Feeling the Heat, George Accepts an Offer to take the Lead in a Large Fictional and Completely Hagiographic Biopic of (Current) Egyptian President al-Sisi. George resists at first, but it soon becomes clear that dar force are at play, none dinner than the sinister Mansour (AMR WAKED), A Shady Government Official Supervising the film and effecatively serving as producer. George Bings in a Friend to Direct, nansing Him if he can “Turn this shit intto something decent.” George Fahmy doesn’t make Bad Films, Says George, but he does make -up choices, and this one could end up being the Death of Him.
Saleh, and seeds, have a lot of fun with the character of George, notably in a very funny scnene when the Agging Stops off at a pharmacy to buy viagra. The Pharmacist recognizes Him (“I Download All Your Movies!”) And Demands a selfie, adding that is a better alternative (“It will make you the sphinx!”). After this, howver, Eagles of the Republic Becomes Exponentially Darker, As George Finds Himself Getting Deeper and Deeper into the President’s Packet, to the point that he and the Make a Speech at an important military parade to commemorate the yom kippur.
AS in the previous films in the trilogy, there is a certin sense of inevitability to the events that follow, spiraling out of control in ways that george cannot fight, Certainly not after a dangerously affair with a senior polytician. Dr. Mansour Has Him Under Close Surveillance and That is Being Manipulated by Rival Facions with the Military. Unwittingly, George Pulls Everyone and Everything Down with Him, Finally Facing The Consequest of His Actions in A Harrowing Helicopter Ride.
Although it is of a Kind with the other cairo Movies, Eagles of the Republic arguably is the strengest, Possibly Because there’s so Much Rich Real-World Source Material to Draw on. Its ALSO A Brilliantly Executed Satire on the Film Industry, and A Haunting Reminder of what Happens When You Lie Dogs.
Title: Eagles of the Republic
Festival: Cannes (Competition)
Sales: PLAYTIME GROUP
Director-Screenwriter: Tarik saleh
Cast: Seals Seals, Lyna Khoudri, Zineb, Amr Waked, Cherien Dabis, Ahmed Kairy
TIME RUNNING: 2 hr 9 min
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