Room to Rent
- Director: Khalid Al-Haggar
- Writer: Khalid Al-Haggar; Amanda McKenzie Stuart
- Producer: Emmanuelle Balestrieri; Robert Buckler
CGiii Comment
Truly terrible - actors of such calibre slumming it...without any style whatsoever.
Al-Haggar was given a significant opportunity and a budget...he blew it - BIG TIME.
An utter disgrace.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. And so Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatmates: Mark, a photographer with a very individual style, Linda, a young, blonde, very sexy model and Marilyn Monroe impersonator, and Miss Stevenson who is convinced that Ali is the reincarnation of her long dead Egyptian lover. All the while Ali is in search of an elusive British visa which unexpectantly leads to finding the love of his life.
Cast & Characters
Flaminia Cinque as Margreta;
Said Taghmaoui as Ali;
Karim Belkhadra as Ahmed;
Maureen O'Farrell as Belly Dancer;
Rupert Graves as Mark;
Clementine Celarie as Vivienne;
Nayef Rashed as Naief;
Badia Obaid as Ali's Mother;
Ramadan Nahyar as Ali's Sister;
Adam El Hagar as Ali's Brother;
Sahar Gadel-Kareem as Ali's Young Sister;
Louis Hammond as Pedro;
Anna Massey as Sarah Stevenson;
Shobu Kapoor as Home Office Official;
Chris Langham as Mr. Paul