A Swedish crime thriller set in the upper echelons ofEgypt's religious hierarchy is sure to make you drool. This is what Tarik Saleh proposes with his latest film, The Cairo Conspiracy, which just won a prize at the 75th Cannes Film Festival for its screenplay. It takes place in Cairo, within a religious university. A particular setting, which is rare to see in the cinema.
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However, the fact that the director immerses us in such an environment does not prevent the power plays, betrayals, dirty tricks and other assassinations inherent in political thrillers. Tarik Saleh has decided to spare no one and to denounce a system corrupted to the core, that of the Muslim elites, capable of anything to take the place of the Grand Imam.
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More than the backstage of power in Egypt, what interests us here is of course the suspense film aspect, which is, on the whole, rather successful. A semblance of investigation is quickly set up and the infiltration of the main character in a group of jihadists plunges the film into a rather exciting torpor. The only problem is that the scenario is sometimes quite repetitive.
Soon, a murder in the university panics the Egyptian police and the investigator in charge of solving the crime calls on Adam to help him. This naive character, who always wants to do the right thing, but who ends up being caught in a spiral from which he cannot escape, contrasts with the darkness of the work of Tarik Saleh. Without ever being surprising, The Cairo Conspiracy remains a good original film noir.
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