Cairo Time is the lyrical film potrait of Juliette Grant, Patricia Clarkson, the sophisticated wife of a UN official langushing in a luxury hotel in Cairo, waiting for her husband's return from a flair up in Gaza. Alexander Siddig (Syriana), as Tareq, plays an elegant bachelor and former employee of her husband, who steps in to guide Juliette through the sunswept vistas of the ancient city and ever closer to his heart.
Monday, July 26, guests of a "Cairo Time" screening mill through Bar Seine at Manhattan's Plaza Athenee hotel. Tall ceilings, long, dark curtains in the doorway, and a Fortuny-style chandelier overhead suggest the luxury of the Near East.
Documentary film director Ken Burns is hosting a dinner for the film at Arabelle, the chichi restaurant in the next room. Creamy yellow walls are flanked by heraldic brass bars that support Venetian glass lighting on chains. The floor of the restaurant is a pool of linen-covered tables and gold ballroom chairs.
Our host, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, is a busy man. "We just finished a film on prohibition," he told Luxist. "After that, it's The Dust Bowl, The Roosevelts, The Central Park Jogger, and Vietnam."
"There were 50,000 speakeasies on the island of Manhattan during Prohibition," Burns offered. "It was a phenomenal reaction to an ill-conceived law."
Burns also mentioned that he filmed at 21, the famous society boite on the Upper East Side. "21 was a speakeasy," he said. "The password changed all the time. That was a part of the glamour. If you knew the code, you got in."
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