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Continuing on the (unusual) Youssef Chahine query by Murray Pomerance
 
1) Ths last film of his I saw (Cannes , probably 1993) it was his wonderful=
 homage-love song to Cairo, the title of which eludes me tight now
2) His latest came out in Paris last March (1995). Here is the capsule revie=
w.
(I'll be glad to translate it but I bet that all Chahinians speak French) =
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D
L'EMIGRE.
 
Ayant fui une contree de secheresse et de famine, ou il vivait dans une=
 tribu pauvre et ou son existence etait menacee, un nomme Ram arrive dans=
 l'Egypte des pharaons, reputee pays de civilisation. Mais ne va-t-il pas=
 au-devant de nouvelles mesaventures?
 
Avec Michel Piccoli, patriarche barbu dans le role du pere de Ram, et avec=
 une foule d'acteurs egyptiens, un film comparable, par son cote=
 spectaculaire, aux superproductions hollywwodiennes d'antan. Realisateur:=
 Youseef Chahine, surnomme, pour la circonstance, Cecil B. De Nil.
 
(Jean-Paul Groussset in Le Canard Enchaine, March 8, 1995)=20
 
The joke at the very end works only in French since the Nile is "le Nil" =20
 
Edwin Jahiel, U of Illinois, Urbana, Il.