Eagles of the Republic review – seductive thriller of corruption and compromise in post-Mubarak Egypt (opens in new tab)

The third film in Tarik Saleh’s ‘Cairo trilogy’ is a about a washed-up movie star who is bullied into starring in government propagandaSwedish-Egyptian film-maker Tarik Saleh has long been a brilliant satirist of the corruption and shabby political compromises and conspiracies of post-Mubarak Egypt. Now he brings us the third of his “Cairo trilogy”, after and . This new film is a seductive black-comic political thriller set in Egypt of the present day, showing us that everyone in the glamorou...