But it can be done.
You need look no further than writer-director Tarik Salehs new import,The Nile Hilton Incident.
When the film opens, Noredin is called to the scene of a murder.
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And its not just any scene and not just any murder.
The latter is the bloody, scantily clad corpse of a famous and beautiful nightclub singer named Lalene.
When Noredin arrives in the room, he immediately smells something fishy.
The other bored-to-death cops on the scene immediately rule it a crime of passion.
But Noredin thinks it looks like a professional job.
This is a sensitive case, and certain members of the Egyptian upper class are basically above the law.
The whole thing feels a bit like an Arabic riff onChinatownorL.A.
Confidential a neonoir with a tawdry edge where our imperfect hero will eventually be doomed.
Its not a question of if, only when he will lose.
Weve all seen movies like this before.
Maybe a lot of them.
