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.jpg) At the Tribeca Film Festival The Yacoubian Building was reviewed by Vincent Dowd, BBC arts correspondent, who wrote about the “..enthusiastic reception for what is said to be the most expensive Egyptian film ever made.”
The Yacoubian Building (Omaret Yacoubian) the review goes on “..is a film version of Alaa Al Aswany's 2002 novel of the same name which depicts the interlinked lives of the residents of a Cairo apartment block.”
“Like the original book, the new film controversially depicts political corruption, homosexuality and acts of political violence”
the review continue praising the film as “..a handsomely staged, ambitious and certainly expensive account of modern life in Cairo.
The director Marwan Hamed is the youngest director of a big movie this year at Tribeca and he has done an assured job: he manages to shift the tone convincingly between basically light-hearted early scenes and the darker, violent second half.” The reviewer focuses on how “..In the west attention will undoubtedly concentrate on The Yacoubian Building's account of how one young man turns to a violent form of extreme Islam in the face of social isolation.”
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