Reality "Poisoned Flower" wants to represent Egypt in the competition for best foreign film at the Oscars

The film received the highest votes from the Filmmakers Committee after a big competition with five films

The special committee in charge of selecting the film representing Egypt in the Oscar contest for best foreign language film, directed by Musaad Fouda, the union of cinematographers, said the film "poison poison" directed by Ahmed Fawzi Saleh was chosen to represent Egyptian cinema in the best foreign film Oscar competition, after obtaining the highest percentage A vote of 11 votes, at the meeting held yesterday, was based on the secret ballot, after the achievement of the quorum in the presence of 22 members of the Committee.
While the film (external night and shot) received 4 votes, and one vote for each of the films (hallway, dreaming off), and did not get the vote without a blue elephant.
The committee chose a short list of films (poisoned rose, evening, blue elephant 2, hallway, treasure and shot), in addition to the long documentary film "The Far Dream". After the viewing of the five films by the members, the opinion is over, to choose a film "Poised Rose", to represent Egypt in the global competition.
"Poisoned Flowers" is based on the novel by Ahmed Zaghloul El-Shiti, "Roses Toxic Saqr", with Mahmoud Hamida, Safa El-Toukhy, Koki and Ibrahim Al-Najari. Some awards, including three at the Cairo Film Festival, at its 40th session, where he received the United Nations Youth Fund, the Salah Abu Saif Award (Special Jury Prize) and the Best Arab Film Award.
"Poisoned Rose" belongs to a realistic cinema that is a special case. His people live and do not live, breathes the gray atmosphere of dreams and hope, but also despair, the rhythms of their clocks of the day stand on the edge of time, regularly wrapped in the same circle. With a smile like he was unable to change or help them .. This case on screen revealed to us an amazing, shocking and intelligent image, sought after by the young director and author Ahmed Fawzi Saleh when of the first feature film experience.
In the film, which begins with a scene of the current of water in a street of Cairo, more precisely in the tanneries zone, we see the greetings of "Cookie", a girl who has only 39, only one brother, Saqr, "Ibrahim El-Nagary", who wants to flee his reality and travel far, where he works as tanneries. In all and represents all his dreams, but stay away from his sister leaves her confused, alone and lost without hope to achieve what she wants, wants to stop her from traveling at all costs, to sabotage romance romance between her brother and a medical student, while she's trying to thwart Saqr's future refugee projects on a boat to Italy, among the dried skins and tired Mule, the magician " Mahmoud Hamida "observed the scene in silence.
The story of Salute and Falcon, it is the life of the marginalized dreaming of a better life, but the painful reality leaves them little choice, the film portraying the manifestations of frustration, cruelty , poverty and illness in an amazing artistic way.
The title of the film is also surprising, the land where water flows, of course, symbolizes the contamination of these dreams of the difficulties faced by humans, and in one of the most beautiful scenes of the visually beautiful film, we see the salvation from the rose of the tombs and put it in a saucepan and then empty it in the water, to drink what happens with water The dream mixes with the despair and the light of the floating life.
The use of Ahmed Fawzi Saleh's experiment may have made his subject completely obscure, although the idea is brilliant and the viewer may be concerned about the issue of recognition of patterns of rotation of his characters in this vicious circle, without hope of survival, the narrative work has its specifications. He wanted the scenario to run endlessly and not self-determination, especially for his heroine, solid foundation of the film, perhaps !! The amazingly realistic photo presented by Ahmad Fawzi Saleh many years ago in his film "Live Skin" passed on a rough world of tanneries, but the man had hope.
Without a doubt, the director has managed to create his own pace, creating plans of his experimental dimensions, especially the world that has impressed and drowned by describing the manifestations of poverty, underdevelopment, pollution and primitive working methods, filming narrow roads, dirty water pipes running through houses and the suffering of workers in tanneries. In long shots, with a moving camera at a slow pace, Fathia crosses narrow corridors, alleyways and alleyways, crosses dirty canals and continues to walk and the camera follows from behind, or from front to back. other moments. This movement is repeated daily to create a realistic work associated with the expression of life of the singles and the marginalized, although K. N has not penetrated the feelings and life of the living area, as well than the humanitarian character.