Omaret yakobean (2006)

English title: The Yacoubian Building.

Several characters living in an apartment building in Cairo: a womanizing old pacha, his imbalanced sister, a homosexual newspaper editor, his young proletarian lover, a pretty young woman who is constantly harassed by her employers, her fiancé who falls under the spell of a fundamentalist preacher.

This ridiculous film is what is usually called a soap, and here goes the definition: the kind of melodrama characterized by stereotypes and a plot which takes realistic elements and distorts them in such a way as to make it completely implausible yet fit to stimulate the emotional identification expectations of its target audience.

Rating: 25