Audiences can practically smell the stench from Cairo’s old tanneries in this visually striking but narratively unconvincing sibling drama.
The fetid effluence of sewage water is the major leitmotif of Ahmed Fawzi Saleh’s debut feature “Poisonous Roses,” an elliptical drama of two siblings, set within the hellish alleyways of Cairo’s unsavory tannery district. Best viewed as a fictional spinoff from the director’s superb 2010 documentary “Living Skin,” which depicted life in the same (or […]
