Good movie but grossly overrated

Excellent adaptation.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

.............. boring story.English woman waits for her husband in fancy Cairo hotel. He shows up at very end of movie. So what are we left with - not much. Patricia Clarkson spends the entire movie wandering around Cairo frustrated and alone. Her husbands friend Tareq spend all his time in a coffee shop and sort of half halfheartedly looking after the frustrated English broad. About the time she decides to give it up to Tareq her husband shows up. End of movie!All I got out of this flick is that middle eastern men are lascivious, myopic, libidinous, jerks. And the women couldn't think their way through a tic, tac, toe game. Cairo is very noise and the cab drivers play the radio too loud. Plus it's stated it never rains there?! Can you imagine the rank odors?

Juliette Grant (Patricia Clarkson) travels from America to Cairo to meet her husband Mark (Tom McCamus), who belongs to the high echelon of UN and is settling refugees in Gaza. On the arrival, Juliette is welcomed by Tareq Khalifa (Alexander Siddig), an Egyptian that had worked with Mark and now is retired. Mark has a problem in Gaza and can not come to Cairo, and the gentle Tareq invites Juliette to sail in the Nile and visit the pyramids. Juliette learns that she can not walk alone on the streets of Cairo since she is offensively harassed by the male locals, and she sightsees the city with Tareq. The proximity with her husband's friend and his attention to her make Juliette too attracted for Tareq. Will they have a love affair? "Cairo Time" is a delicate and sensitive romance about companionship evolving to romance for mature audiences. Immediately after watching this pleasant film, I said to myself: this is certainly a film directed by a woman… and I was right. The sensitiveness of the director and author Ruba Nadda is impressive."Cairo Time" has magnificent cinematography and locations and the underrated Patricia Clarkson is excellent and with a perfect chemistry with Alexander Siddig. The music score is very beautiful and the conclusion of the affair of Juliette and Tareq is stunning. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Meus Dias no Cairo" ("My Days in Cairo")

A woman waits for her husband in Cairo. He meets a local, but nothing happens. The husband arrives. The End.Apparently you need to write 10 lines for a review to be considered, but nothing really happens in this film. Let's see what else I can talk about.It is very hot in Cairo in November. There are men only bars. Blonde women may be followed by local men. The pyramids seem to be at walking distance from central Cairo. No Egyptian wedding is complete without a dance.Oh, I know! NOTHING HAPPENS IN THIS FILM!

This film is very much in the spirit of the classic, Noel Coward penned, "Brief Encounter". If you have seen that, you have an idea of what to expect in terms of relationship progression here! In other words it's about two very responsible people, who have an incredible chemistry, considering being not so responsible. While definitely owing a debt to Noel Coward, I think this stands on its own quite well. The improvement to the theme is in the setting. While much of Brief Encounter takes place in dreary train stations and sleepy English villages, this story takes place in a highly exotic and romanticized Egypt, which has the result of winding the viewer up quite a bit more...if you ask me.