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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.

Top Cast

  • Saïd Taghmaoui

    Saïd Taghmaoui

    Ali

  • Juliette Lewis

    Juliette Lewis

    Linda

  • Rupert Graves

    Rupert Graves

    Mark

  • Anna Massey

    Anna Massey

    Sarah Stevenson

  • Clémentine Célarié

    Clémentine Célarié

    Vivienne

  • Liam Noble

    Liam Noble

    Bouncer

  • Flaminia Cinque

    Flaminia Cinque

    Margreta

  • Karim Belkhadra

    Karim Belkhadra

    Ahmed

  • Maureen O'Farrell

    Maureen O'Farrell

    Belly Dancer

Overview

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.

Rating

6.0 / 10
8 Reviews
1 Popular

1 Reviews

  • claristo
    claristo
    6 Jun 1, 2026

    frankly not a good movie at all but I'm absolutely in love with how vivid a lot of the scenery is and there's this one shot with Fernando and Mark blurry in the background and Linda is the focus and she's kind of haloed by light and I think it's gorgeous, I have it screenshotted and I look at it probably several times a month... what that says about me idk lmao (I watched this for Shane Taylor)

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