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‘Spring Came on Laughing’ Director and Producer on Revealing the Secrets of Egyptian Women’s Lives and Why Flowers Dictated the Schedule
'Spring Came on Laughing,' the only Egyptian film in competition at the Cairo Film Festival, is the debut feature of Noha Adel.
It is rich in music and messy, full of noisy life, taking the form of a series of conversations between women where a drama rapidly escalates into a jumble of tragedy and dark humor. The film took three years to make, partly due to extended rehearsal periods – several months for each vignette – in which the non-actors became comfortable with each other and absorbed the story. Divided into sections, labeled with months, each one shows an unraveling as secrets are revealed before a wedding; friendships destroyed over lunch; a manicurist is unfairly accused of stealing.
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