BAHEB EL CIMA (2004)

A child who loves the cinema struggles with his fanatic dad who finds everything ,including cinema, a sin, with the help of his mother who is sexually depressed.

The whole story is told from the view of Na'eem, their son, a Six year old boy who adores the cinema which causes a continuous conflict with his father, who considers it a sin.

The film opens in the Shoubra neighborhood where the family of the over-conservative Mr. Adly (Mahmoud Hemeda) lives. With his big glasses and thick mustache, Adly is full of contradictions: At home, he is a tough father who tutors his seven year old child Naeem (Youssef Osman) that watching cinema is a major sin. But as a social worker at school, he lends money to the poor students who are in need for financial support.
As for his wife Ne¡¯emat (Layla Elwi), she is a school supervisor caught in the daily work routine that made her loose her artistic touch as a painter and a drawing teacher.

Because Adly is also sexually neglecting her, Ne¡¯emat develops a relationship with her colleague and painter (Zaki Fateen Abdel Wahab) who invites her to his gallery and urges her to rediscover both her feminine desires and her artistic senses. On the other hand, Naeem becomes more eager to go to the cinema and develops his own method for his wish to come true by making his cousin (Mena Shalaby) and her fianc¨¦e (Singer Edward) take him to the movies or he will tell their parents that he caught them flirting!

Because the movie is called Baheb El Cima and the main character is a cute young child, one could imagine that the love of cinema is the screenplay¡¯s center point. Although the inspirations from Giuseppe Tornatore¡¯s Cinema Paradiso (1988) were obvious, Baheb El Cima has chosen another path to depict some of the habits of an Egyptian Protestant family.

Set in Cairo in the 1960s. Showing the daily life of an Egyptian Christian family. Adly, the father,is a conservetive teacher who's fear of god turned him into a fanatic. His wife, ne'mat, a liberal protustant, works as a school mistress who is a depressed artist and also struggling with her frustrated sexual life with her husband.

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