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Luxor

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British aid worker Hana returns to the ancient city of Luxor, Egypt, and meets former lover Sultan. As she wanders, haunted by the familiar place, she struggles to reconcile the choices of the past with the uncertainty of the present. Romantic drama, starring Andrea Riseborough, Michael Landes, Shirin Redha and Karim Saleh

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Josh Winning

"I don't remember much these days," confesses Hana (Andrea Riseborough) in this lush and ethereal rumination on the aftershocks of trauma. Arriving in the eponymous Egyptian city swaddled in oversized clothes, she spends her days drifting through the parched streets and temples like a sightseeing ghost, clearly a woman in crisis. The source of her malaise is sparingly hinted at by writer/director Zeina Durra, whose sparse dialogue repeatedly draws upon the history of Egypt, most tellingly in the story of the goddess Isis, whose connection to rebirth and rejuvenation is vital to our understanding of Hana. Measured and ponderous with immersive landscape photography that demands to be seen on the big screen, Luxor recalls the films of Joanna Hogg in its delicate, humanistic spirit. It is a slow-burn journey into the depths of suffering that rewards the faithful, and the ever-chameleonic Riseborough is nothing short of mesmerising.

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Cast

rolenameHanaAndrea RiseboroughSultanKarim SalehCarlMichael LandesDuniaShereen RedaJuneViolet BrannanHaroldRand CarterAngieJanie Aziz

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rolenameDirectorZeina Durra

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Released on

2020-11-06

Languages

English | Arabic

Guidance

Swearing, drugs

Formats

Colour

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