Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

George Wright This beautifully made film from 2009 shows a friendship between two people, Patricia Clarkson (Juliette) and Alexander Siddig (Tareq), that grows stronger despite the cultural differences between the Western woman and her Egyptian host, a friend of her husband. The female lead is visiting Cairo to spend time with her husband, a Canadian who works as director of a UN refugee camp in Gaza. The husband Marc is delayed and Juliette leans on her host Tareq for guidance and support. Both are very refined, professional people with their own careers but it isn't long before we see the differences in upbringing and outlook. Despite the cultural gap, the two are able to talk and confide in one another and fall in love. The love they share is very restrained and never crosses the line into an "affair". Both Clarkson and Siddig give excellent performances. Clarkson, as Juliette, finds herself courting trouble when she decides to explore the city. Juliette goes out and about in Cairo and realizes that she cannot be a tourist as if she were in London or New York. This is where Tareq is able to help her through the dangers of appearing too loose or wandering about in what is essentially a police state on one hand, while young men follow her and try to pick her up, the perils of being a Western woman who dresses as if she were on the streets of a North American city. She also finds herself being singled out by police and asked for her passport. The photography captures the life of the teeming city as well as the dangers living in it. The viewers see the backdrop of the Pyramids, the panoramic shots of the Nile and the desert landscape beyond the bustling city. The pace of the movie is slow and allowed me to observe the beautiful setting and the unfolding characters. Because it moves slowly, it wouldn't be to everyone's liking. Nevertheless, I found the movie very satisfying with its strong dose of beauty and realism.

Leex666 I admit I have so far only watched half of this film, because I found it so flat as to be narcoleptic rather than just soporific.I often love slow paced films (I run a film group and the last film was 2046) but when the acting is so torpid and the story full of incongruous details I loose patience and no amount of decent cinematography can save the day.Juliette Grant's character irritated the hell out of me, I can't work out if it because she is a clichéd character or because she captured too well people who are infuriating I am sure that is not the directors Intention, so either way it's a fail for me.

Chrissy Rich I absolutely loved this movie. I wasn't expecting to love it as much as I did as I had never really heard anything about this film. The "relationship" between the two main characters is so subtle yet powerful. I loved the beauty of the movie. Simple romance. Great date movie. Both characters are very likable. The actress who plays Juliette is beautiful in a classic sort of way. The actor who played Tareq was fantastic! This movie is not action packed but I did not find it boring at all.I have been to Cairo years ago while backpacking with friends and I loved recognizing many of the places I had been. Egypt and the Egyptian people are beautiful. Cairo definitely feels like you have one foot in the present and one foot in the ancient past. This film made me feel like that again. Great Canadian production.

coyote521 In the summary it says that the affair that takes place in this movie catches the characters "unawares". If they are unaware, they are certainly the only ones. If anybody watching this movie doesn't know exactly what's going to happen within a few minutes, then they've fallen asleep. And if they've fallen asleep, they probably probably had a dream in which people said interesting things to each other and some of the things that took place came as a surprise.On the other hand, those of us not lucky enough to fall asleep at least get this much: At the end we are rewarded with exactly the ending we expected five minutes in.Yes, it's beautiful to look at. If you want to look at pretty shots of Cairo and the pyramids for 90 minutes, you might do better to pick up a few postcards and while away the hours looking at them. It would be silly to waste your time doing that, of course, but it would probably be a better waste of your time than sitting through this tired old movie.Patricia Clarkson may be a very good actress. But she is not a particularly interesting actress, at least not in this movie. And she certainly isn't playing a very interesting or compelling person in this movie. She is not helped much by a limpid script or by an uninspired director. There are hundreds of shots in "Cairo Time" of Patricia Clarkson doing pretty much nothing. Here she is lying in bed. Here she is staring out a window. Here she is walking down a street. She looks blank all the time. It's a profound statement about loneliness in a strange city. It must be awful to be alone in Cairo. But it's probably better to be alone in Cairo than it is to be with Patricia Clarkson in Cairo.There are many long takes of Patricia Clarkson and Alexander Siddig looking at each other. I don't know what they're thinking. I know what I was thinking. I was thinking "could we please look at something else now?" How about some more pretty shots of the Nile?During much of this movie I found myself wondering how Cairo could be so quiet and sparsely populated. This is not what I'd heard about Cairo. Then it occurred to me that the making of this movie probably sent people running in the other direction. I began to wonder about the poor crew that had to work on this movie. It's bad enough to sit through the long boring scenes in this movie as a viewer. Imagine how excruciating it must have been for the crew who had to endure several takes of some of these dreadfully boring "episodes". I feel for anybody who had to endure any scene in this movie more than once.If you want to see a movie about a middle aged woman who unexpectedly falls in love with a man she is ill suited for in a beautiful location, then I would suggest "summertime" starring Katherine Hepburn and Rosanno Brazzi and directed by David Lean and set in Venice. Katherine Hepburn, though frequently annoying, is a much more interesting and inventive actress. Brazzi was a far more suitable foreigner to fall in love with. David Lean was a director who seemed to be engaged in what he was directing. And Venice is a better actor than Cairo.