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The Nile Hilton Incident [Sub: Eng]
Set against the backdrop of the Egyptian Revolution, the thriller features a police officer who investigates the murder of a woman. What initially seems to be a killing of a prostitute turns into a more complicated case involving the very elite of Egypt.
26 May 1960, Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France
29 April 1973, Beirut, Lebanon
October 31, 2017
A genuinely thrilling neo-noir with added political intrigue.September 07, 2017
Seedy and alluring.August 09, 2017
Sadly, the movie ends up playing out like an unmemorable Law & Order episode.August 29, 2017
The Nile Hilton Incident is definitely watchable, but it's so mechanically generic that it simply exists as a trivial piece of disposable cinema.November 13, 2017
Salah does noir well and provides his audience with a perfect case study on what it feels like to navigate dysfunction and futility.September 07, 2017
"Incident" isn't completely lost, but it's unfulfilling in many ways, kept out of reach for too long, in need of more dramatic definition and hostility to fully realize its incredible potential.August 31, 2017
As doomed as Noredin's actions often seem, they're tinged with enough simmering humanity to keep us caring.September 08, 2017
The Nile Hilton Incident is satisfyingly unsurprising in its surprises.January 26, 2017
A political thriller based on a true story, but it needs the real life context to give it some energy (usually, it's the other way around).August 10, 2017
It's possible to admire each scene and still see this film, in its entirety, as in need of some serious sharpening.November 02, 2017
The evocation of that old film noir feeling is hugely effective here: Dad telling his freshly-bribed son "You can't buy dignity," the fantastic slow zoom on a love scene reflected in a two-way mirror, even the beguiling torch singer.August 10, 2017
You can feel the Middle Eastern country's impending wave of frustration, corruption, and paranoia simmering underneath every scene in the film like white noise in the background.