Peacock Visual Arts is the main contemporary visual arts organisation in Aberdeen and the North-east of Scotland and is supported by Aberdeen City Council and the Scottish Arts Council.
Cruel Weather. Film: Chaos
13 November
2007 Venice International Film Festival
2007 Toronto International Film Festival
[Chaos, Youssef Chahine, 122min, 2007]
- Friday 13 November
- University of Aberdeen
- Starts 7pm
In his last film, completed with the help of longtime collaborator Khaled Youssef, Chahine concocts a tasty melodrama, with plenty of political bite, out of a tale about a crusading public prosecutor taking on a corrupt and sadistic police chief in contemporary Cairo. Set in the cosmopolitan neighborhood of Choubra, known for the diversity of its residents, Chaos reveals the area to be a powder keg thanks to social and economic conditions that deteriorate while the elite look the other way. In distinct Chahine manner, the narrative and political commentary is overlaid with a love triangle that hightens the dramatic effects.
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