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CANNES FESTIVAL, “Yomeddine”

A road movie in Egypt

Anyone reading the description for “Yomeddine” and deducting that A.B. Shawky is trying hard at tugging at the heart’s strings could be forgiven. There’s something vaguely, tacitly, manipulative about a road movie in which a leper and an orphan are paired together and travel across a part of Egypt on a donkey-pulled carriage, the world oblivious to them. Doesn't this sound like the working script ... more >