Art – Heba Al-Wahali – I Love the Cinema, an Egyptian film produced in 2004, starring Mahmoud Hamida, Laila Alawi, and the child Youssef Othman It was written by screenwriter Hani Fawzi, on directed by Osama Fawzi, and produced by Hani Girgis. Fawzi. It is a film with a mostly comic character, and Youssef Othman is the main actor of the film.
The film deals with the life of a Christian family consisting of a religiously strict Coptic Orthodox husband, a Protestant wife, a boy and a daughter, and shows the social problems that this family faces due to a “puritanical” outlook. the man of faith. When this film was shown, it caused a huge uproar.
The film received positive reviews from critics, as the writer in the weekly magazine “Sabah Al-Khair” Issam Zakaria says that the film can be “understood on several levels,” because the course of the dramatic events can be “a satirical criticism of the puritanism of the Coptic religious foundation, together with the authoritarian puritanism of the family it represents. ” The father and also the tyranny of political authority. “
The critic in the weekly “Rose Al-Youssef”, Tariq Al-Shennawi, believes that “the situation written by Hani Fawzi was smooth, realistic and beautiful, together with the director Osama, who created a state of happiness and pleasure is not. without depth at the level of thought and cinematic image.”
The film saw one of the most intense scenes of happiness between Laila Alawi and Mahmoud Hamida.