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. IFC Films have announced the picked up Theatrical and VOD Release for their 2010 slate.
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.
