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‘Eagles Of The Republic’ Review: The Terrific Fares Fares Stars In Tarik Saleh’s Precision-Tooled Political Thriller – Cannes Film Festival

‘Eagles Of The Republic’ review: The terrific Fares Fares stars in Tarik Saleh’s precision-tooled political thriller – Cannes Film Festival

‘Eagles Of The Republic’Yigit Eken Swedish director Tarik Saleh would be a leftfield but great pick for a Bond movie, and the third entry in his Cairo trilogy — following The Nile Hilton Incident(2017) and Boy from Heaven(2022) — is the proof. His long-suffering manager Fawzy (Ahmed Kairy) spells it out for him (“George, they are after you”), and while driving out late at night the actor is pulled up by a soldier who shows him a picture of his son and warns of the high incidence of traffic “accidents” that happen at the American university where he is studying. As in the previous films in the trilogy, there is a certain sense of inevitability to the events that follow, spiralling out of control in ways that George cannot fight, certainly not after he blithely embarks on a dangerous affair with a senior politician’s wife — unaware that Dr. Mansour has him under close surveillance and that he is being manipulated by rival factions within the military.

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