#classic films
The fashion, the lyrics, the music, the grandness of it all; they just don’t make musical films in Egypt like they used to - in fact, they don’t really make them at all anymore. No contemporary Egyptian film compares to those classic old school musicals that most Egyptians grew up watching and loving. So much so, that perhaps almost everyone immediately knows the tune that accompanies the phrase ‘do’o el shamasi’ (place the parasols). Perhaps almost everyone also remembers being…
