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IFC Finds ‘Cairo Time’ for Ruba Nadda’s Rom Drama

Don’t get me wrong, I heart Patricia Clarkson and just about anything that IFC distributes, but the reason why I was nowhere close to including Ruba Nadda’s romantic drama among my TIFF coverage (it won the Best Canadian Feature in Toronto) was the sentiment that this one is intended for a very specific crowd in mind: the women over 40 demo.

Eric Lavallée

Published on October 22, 2009

Cairo Time sees Clarkson play a woman who arrives in Cairo to meet her husband (Tom McCamus) only to be told he is unavoidably delayed in Gaza and has in turn sent his friend (Alexander Siddig), a retired Egyptian police officer, to pick her up. The brief love affair that follows catches them both completely off guard.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).