The visual assurance of “You Will Die at Twenty” is the most immediately notable element of Sudanese director Amjad Abu Alala’s accomplished feature debut. Beautifully composed and boasting the kind of sensitivity to light sources and color tonalities usually ascribed to top photographers, the film lovingly depicts the remote east-central region of Sudan as a quasi-magical place of sand, sky and the colors of the Nile. The story, about a young man raised to believe an unfortunate event at his birth has condemned him to die at 20, generally has an equally clear-cut quality, simple in the telling yet matched to the pictorial tenor. Some may find a clash between its fable-like guilelessness and other moments when the outside world’s cynicism breaks in, yet the film remains a touching, nonjudgmental depiction of people circumscribed by superstition. Festival play is assured.
This pocket of Sudan is both life-giving, situated between...
This pocket of Sudan is both life-giving, situated between...
- 9/4/2019
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Egyptian Legend Rostom Dies
Legendary Egyptian actress Hind Rostom has died in Cairo. She was 82.
The screen star passed away on Monday after suffering a heart attack in hospital, according to Variety.com.
She was dubbed Marilyn Monroe of the Arabs because of her blonde hair and good looks and won acclaim for her 1958 film Cairo Station.
Rostom also starred in Love Rumor and Struggle on the Nile with Omar Sharif, but retired from acting in 1979 so she would be remembered as a beautiful movie star.
She was married to director Hassan Reda and is survived by her second husband, physician Mohammad Fayad, and her daughter Basant.
The screen star passed away on Monday after suffering a heart attack in hospital, according to Variety.com.
She was dubbed Marilyn Monroe of the Arabs because of her blonde hair and good looks and won acclaim for her 1958 film Cairo Station.
Rostom also starred in Love Rumor and Struggle on the Nile with Omar Sharif, but retired from acting in 1979 so she would be remembered as a beautiful movie star.
She was married to director Hassan Reda and is survived by her second husband, physician Mohammad Fayad, and her daughter Basant.
- 8/9/2011
- WENN
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