1954 · drama · romance
The Blazing Sun
Directed by Youssef Chahine1h 56m1954
A wealthy landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter, Amal, is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.
Our read: The Blazing Sun (1954) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- intense
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