The Egyptian film The Harouns is confused as to what it’s trying to say. It gets the beginning right as it introduces Haroun, the devil reincarnate, who was a criminal genius, and he and Hodhod, the mob boss, make quite a fortune for themselves. Looking like an action thriller, it turns into a murder mystery when Haroun is killed, and nobody knows who did it. There are characters introduced one after the other who may be the killer, and the event for Haroun’s last rites becomes the hot seat for murders and betrayals, and it is only in the end that everybody figures out who the real killer was. I’m tempted to say that the film would have worked best as a short film, with the drama distilled down to who killed Haroun and why, after showing us the connection of the criminal genius to the rest.
- 12/27/2023
- by Ayush Awasthi
- Film Fugitives
Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2022, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
2022 was a year where lists were discussed a lot. Sight and Sound released their once-in-a-decade poll, which I unexpectedly and luckily got to participate in. Is the act of list-making frivolous? Some might think so. Others may consider it is absolutely necessary to canon-forming and an indispensable part of the discovery of new cinema. One thing is certain however: the idea of lists to the general public seem to be seen as valuable only in their ability to justify or reinforce already-held opinions. In the internet age of exposure to unsolicited opinions about the arts, the culture has retracted back to needing opinions validated over and over again rather than open to being challenged in the aim of discovering something new. In my lists of recent, very purposefully,...
2022 was a year where lists were discussed a lot. Sight and Sound released their once-in-a-decade poll, which I unexpectedly and luckily got to participate in. Is the act of list-making frivolous? Some might think so. Others may consider it is absolutely necessary to canon-forming and an indispensable part of the discovery of new cinema. One thing is certain however: the idea of lists to the general public seem to be seen as valuable only in their ability to justify or reinforce already-held opinions. In the internet age of exposure to unsolicited opinions about the arts, the culture has retracted back to needing opinions validated over and over again rather than open to being challenged in the aim of discovering something new. In my lists of recent, very purposefully,...
- 1/8/2023
- by Soham Gadre
- The Film Stage
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