ZouZou (Khally ballak min ZouZou)
Hassan Al Imam, 1972
I love musicals, and this one is particularly good as it was written by the great cartoonist, poet and satirist Salah Jaheen. It is a comedy of class conflict – Zouzou (Soad Hosny) comes from Cairo's popular quarters but is attending the liberal world of university. It's a satirical film but sexy and lively. If you watch this, and then visit a Cairo university campus today, with its veiled girls and bearded boys, you will be shocked by how conservative and reactionary Arab urban society has become in the past 40 years.
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