Mayye Zayed's fly-on-the-wall study of a weightlifting training gym in Alexandria unfolds as a dual portrait, which has a visual energy that is spurred on by Marian Mentrup's percussively dynamic score, which arrives at key moments. One focus is little Asmaa Ramadan Abbary - known to everyone by the nickname Zebiba (Raisin) - a talented kid, who we meet at 14, with several years training already under her weightlifting belt. Just as important, though, is her trainer, Captain Ramadan, who has already made an Olympic champion out of his own daughter Nahla and others, no mean feat in any circumstances but all the more remarkable when you consider this 'gym' is essentially a patch of scrubland in the middle of an Alexandria street, with traffic whizzing by at all hours.
It may not be fancy but it's a place where "anyone's welcome", boy or girl, although full application is expected all of the.
It may not be fancy but it's a place where "anyone's welcome", boy or girl, although full application is expected all of the.
- 4/27/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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