Downtown Girls

Just came back from the cinema after watching the latest Mohammad Khan's movie (Banat West Elbalad) Or (Ddowntown Girls),the movie tells the story of two girls. Jomana(Hend Sabry) and Yasmeen(Menna Shalaby) who were used to take the metro daily from where they live to the downtown area where they work ,they used to see each other every day until one day they start to talk with each other and become gradually dear friends ,the film starts with hints of their every day journey ,one day they meet two guys ,Osman(Mohammad Nagaty) & Samir(Khaled Abu Alnaga) who also takes the same journey for the same purpose every day ,after some eyes flirting the two pairs exchange telephone numbers ,with Yasmeen deciding to play a little game by providing Jomana's information as hers and vice versa ,the two guys takes the bait and the story gets developed.

The most special element here is the astonishing capability of the director to capture all the things about the Downtown area ,the crowds ,the shops and the staffs ,the streets ,cafe's ...Etc ,with very elegant details that only known and felt by the people who really knows what is the real meaning and experience of a spiritually rich area like The downtown area(The movie was shot in Downtown Cairo but amazingly here in Alexandria it's 90% similar in everything but on a smaller scale ,there's even streets that has the name in both Cairo & Alexandria Like Sheriff Street ,Tahrir square and others) ,there's also the realistic look and feel about people's relationships without fictioning or extremism every thing as we have always used to have in watching most of the director's movies ,there's another two strong elemnts in the movie ,first the editing was sharp and mature ,no hard cuts or over roughed ,most of the editing was done in the proper method and the rhythm was kept on track for most parts of the movie ,second strong element is Cinematography ,there's some good shots in the movie especially on the metro and on the stations ,the director used handheld camera for many scened which added more realistic feeling and strong capturing of streets life.

Banat westelbalad is a good movie ,it's definitely not the director's best but suddenly we have a very fresh breeze between all the retarded Arabic releases we are surrounded with ,my advice to you is to watch this movie as fast as you can cause in these days a respecful movies like this doesn't last long in cinemas ,if this kind of cinema is not suitable for your appeal then don't worry ,BO7A is still on release successfully!


Coming soon reviews:
-The Cinderella Man
-A History of Violence