Film
The Nile Hilton Incident
- Director
- Tarik Saleh
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 111 mins
An upmarket, noirish arthouse thriller from Swedish-Egyptian director Tarik Saleh, loosely inspired by the real-life case of Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim, who was murdered in her Dubai apartment back in 2008.
Fares Fares, who’s recently been forging a successful career as a Hollywood character actor with roles in the likes of Zero Dark Thirty and Rogue One, stars as a world-weary urban cop, mired in a milieu of corruption, who’s assigned to investigate the slaying of a celebrity, only to find that some very powerful people would prefer the case not to be solved. Unfolding against the backdrop of the Tahrir Square protests of January 2011, this is a classy police procedural with a sharp political edge.
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