Egypt's golden age cinema asks: who gets to write a woman's story?
Nadia is a young girl who's torn between the stances of three men in her life; her artist lover, her conservative brother, and her secular professor Fo'uad Ebaid. Will she be able to create her own path in life apart from their beliefs?
Acting
Soad Hosny carries every scene with devastating restraint
Direction
Arafa frames Cairo as its own suffocating character
Writing
Rare 70s Arab cinema centering female agency
Director
Saad Arafa
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