“Eagle of the Republic”, commedia del rate – Liberation

Republican Eagle opens like a palimpsest, scrawling its credits over withered cinema posters, already filled with names from Egypt’s golden age of production. This attitude fits perfectly with Tarik Saleh, who, from film to film, attempts to rewrite contemporary Egypt in a cinematic light, adding layers of fiction, genre, to depict the burning context leading to the thriller (Secret Cairo) or thrillers with paranoid tendencies (Cairo Conspiracywhich earned Saleh the screenplay prize at Cannes in 2022). Republican Eaglethe final link in this unofficial trilogy is left empty-handed