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EVENINGS 7:30, 9:20 Matinees Friday at 4:00 PM, Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 PM Juliette (Oscar-nominee Patricia Clarkson), is a woman who married young yet still loves her husband. She's a fashion magazine editor who travels to Cairo to vacation with her husband, Mark, a UN official who's working in the region. Their children have grown up and moved away. Their hopes and dreams have been replaced by accomplishments and responsibilities. To Juliette, the trip to Cairo promises the kind of alone-time that the couple had long, and patiently, deferred. 
But when Mark (Tom McCamus) can't break free from urgent work in Gaza, his dear friend and former security officer Tareq (Alexander Siddig) steps in to usher Juliette #&8212; a woman he's long heard about but never met #&8212; from the airport to the hotel. For years, Mark had trusted Tareq with his own life, so it made sense to extend that trust to Juliette's wellbeing. Once at the hotel, Juliette is alone again. Unwilling to wait quietly for her husband's arrival, every effort she makes to venture out on her own is rebuffed. Cairo is not a gentle city. With a population of 17 million, the noise is unbearable. The heat, mixed with dust, is oppressive. Traffic does not adhere to lanes or stop lights. And women, particularly foreigners, can draw unwelcome attention when venturing out into public alone. Juliette quickly learns that the simple activities of everyday living in Canada become a test of wills in Cairo. And so she turns to Tareq, who shows her the city and, gradually, herself.  They stroll through markets, ferry down the Nile, take tea on sunny verandas, and develop an easy, quiet rapport. As it dawns on Juliette that Mark may never join her in Cairo, her friendship with Tareq subtly shifts into something more intimate. CAIRO TIME is an exquisite, old-fashioned love story of stolen glances and unspoken chemistry, in which two unlikely people make a beautiful city their own and secretly contemplate an impossible affair. (Rated PG). |
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This Saturday, Sept. 11
4:00 PM ONLY "Zero: 9/11" |
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Varsity Theatre, 1207 25th St., Des Moines IA 50311-3005 |
