{"id":1800,"date":"2016-12-11T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2017-12-09T13:42:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:42:46","slug":"clash-egypt-thu-16-november-8pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2016\/12\/clash-egypt-thu-16-november-8pm\/","title":{"rendered":"CLASH [EGYPT], THU 16 NOVEMBER, 8PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eiSzIOZHSiM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Mohamed Diab brings claustrophobic intimacy to a historic moment in this stunning thriller, set inside a police vehicle during Egypt\u2019s 2013 street protests.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Egyptian revolution that\u00a0dislodged Hosni Mubarak\u00a0in 2011 and its chaotic aftermath continues to give us\u00a0some\u00a0fascinating\u00a0films. Here is the latest, a rather amazing New Wave-style drama that combines claustrophobic intimacy with some logistically epic scene-setting.<\/p>\n<p>The year\u00a0is 2013, the army has just unseated Mohamed Morsi\u2019s Muslim Brotherhood, and pro-army and pro-MB factions clash on the streets. A reporter and photographer are arrested and thrown into the back of a police van, which is the sole camera setting; soon, other demonstrators from both sides are chucked in \u2013 along with, in one particularly chaotic scene, a lenient cop. They are crowded in there for hours in the boiling heat with no water and a plastic bottle to pee in. Through the grille-meshed window they get glimpses of the turmoil on the city streets.<\/p>\n<p>At first, it looks like a no-budget movie with about a dozen people shot in a single location, but the director, Mohamed Diab, stages some spectacular riot scenes outside, which are all the more staggering for intruding on this enclosed space so unexpectedly.<\/p>\n<p>The movie stunningly replicates that sense of inside and outside that must be felt by witnesses to any historic moment: the private debate, the enclosed conflict, and the theatre of confrontation unfolding beyond. What a dynamic piece of cinema.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0Peter Bradshaw The Guardian<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Bravura film-making with a kick-in-the-gut message about chaos and cruelty.&#8217;<\/em> &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/film\/festivals\/cannes-film-review-clash-1201773347\/\">Variety<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Director Mohamed Diab won\u2019t let us pick sides in this prize-winning drama which is thick with tension.\u2019<\/em> \u2013 \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/goingout\/film\/clash-film-review-the-year-egypt-tore-itself-apart-a3520126.html\">The Evening Standard<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.festival-cannes.com\/en\/69-editions\/retrospective\/2016\/actualites\/articles\/eshtebak-clash-interview-with-mohamed-diab\">Click here to read an interview with the director.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ESHTEBAK | Egypt, 2017 | Language: Arabic | 97 minutes | Cert: CLUB<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0\u00a0 Mohamed Diab<\/p>\n<p>Cast: Nelly Karim, Hani Adel, El Sebaii Mohamed<\/p>\n<p>Director Gavin FitzGerald will attend on the night, and introduce his short Irish documentary, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/219680748\">The Truth About Irish Hip Hop<\/a><\/strong>, about the rise of hip hop in Ireland and the changing attitudes towards the once foreign art form.\u00a0 His 19 minute short film will be shown before the feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Diab brings claustrophobic intimacy to a historic moment in this stunning thriller, set inside a police vehicle during Egypt\u2019s 2013 street protests. &#8220;The Egyptian revolution that\u00a0dislodged Hosni Mubarak\u00a0in 2011&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[18,30,29,28,24,19,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}