Overview
- The feature is now playing in cinemas as French outlets spotlight its release and thematic ambitions.
- Fares Fares plays George Fahmy, a revered Egyptian movie star pressured by authorities to embody President Al‑Sassi in a state‑commissioned biopic.
- The plot pulls Fahmy into the regime’s inner circle, including a clandestine relationship with the general’s wife who supervises the production.
- Lyna Khoudri appears as Fahmy’s much younger companion, and Zineb Triki plays his mistress, who is also the wife of a minister.
- Reviewers present the movie as the capstone to Saleh’s Cairo trilogy and note its meta "actor playing an actor" device in a lineage that includes Sunset Boulevard and Birdman.