Tarik Saleh closes his Cairo trilogy with a slightly disappointing opus

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After the successes of “Cairo Confidential” (2017) and “The Cairo Conspiracy” (2022), it is an understatement to say that we were waiting for Tarik Saleh’s new film. Having left the Cannes Film Festival empty-handed, this new chapter inspired by the recent history of Egypt plunges a star actor of national cinema into the workings of the conspiratorial conspiracies which shook the country in the 1960s. Claimed as a tribute to Italian comedy, the fiction lacks gall. The scenario is scattered, the humor atrophies and the direction remains too cautious. Even the best are allowed to make mistakes.