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Cairo Time Original Soundtrack - Juliette is Happy

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Uploaded on Jun 29, 2010

Released March 22, 2010
Copyright Niall Byrne 2009
No copyright infringement intended

Juliette (Patricia Clarkson), a magazine editor, travels to Cairo to meet her husband, Mark (Tom McCamus), a UN official working in Gaza, for a three week vacation. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq (Alexander Siddig), who had been his security officer for many years, to escort her throughout the beautiful and exotic city. The last thing anyone expects is that they will fall in love.

Cairo Time is a love letter to a city intertwined with a love story about a woman. It began when Syrian-Canadian writer/director Ruba Nadda first visited Cairo with her family many years ago. Returning a decade ago with one of her sisters, (and no longer under the protective eye of her father) they had memorable adventures. "The city was beautiful and the people were beautiful," Nadda recalled. Having lived in Damascus, and subsequently traveled the world, Nadda never forgot the grandeur and the chaos of this ancient city that was originally settled in Paleolithic times. Sitting at the border of what was once Upper and Lower Egypt, the area that was to become the metropolis of Cairo has played host to the Greeks, Romans, Crusaders, the Ottomans, Napoleon, and the British and is now one of the most densely populated cities in the world. "I remember the city being alive. It's gritty and historical and seething with humanity and I just had to capture it on screen." Truly, a journey through Cairo is a journey through time and it awakens your soul.

It was during Nadda's many trips to international film festivals with her 14 short films and her previous feature, Sabah, that she came to appreciate the feelings of introspection and melancholy that traveling alone engenders. From these experiences came Cairo Time, something Nadda deems a "real love story, but one that is very un-West because to me the West is about acquiring, accomplishing, deadlines and running, running, running. The central character, Juliette, is suddenly forced to slow down and move on Cairo time." This film has a West-meets-East quality to the unexpected, unrequited love between an Arab man and a North American woman. It's also a throw to old style, classic films reminiscent of the restrained, emotional tension in the work of Jane Austen.

Juliette is a woman who married young and still ardently loves her husband, Mark, who works abroad. Their children have grown up and moved away. Life, doing what it usually does to a marriage, has replaced their hopes and dreams with accomplishment and responsibilities. In the back of her head, Juliette had thought that sooner or later, she and her husband would have time for each other, which was the reason for her trip to Cairo.

"I love this woman," explained Nadda. "She is quiet. And she has a sadness that's just under the surface which comes from a lifetime of being by herself a lot because she's been stood up by a husband whose work has often taken priority."

Unable to meet Juliette when she lands, but knowing that she is an independent woman who is likely to head off on her own, Mark asks Tareq to care for her. For years, Mark had trusted Tareq with his own life, so it made sense to extend that trust to Juliette's wellbeing.

Once at the hotel, Juliette is alone again. Unwilling to wait quietly for her husband's arrival, every effort she makes to venture out on her own is rebuffed. Cairo is not a gentle city. With a population of 17 million, the noise is unbearable. The heat, mixed with dust, is oppressive. Traffic does not adhere to lanes or stop lights. And women, particularly foreigners, do not easily move about in public alone. Quickly, Juliette learns that the simple activities of everyday living in Canada, like walking across the street, become a test of wills in Cairo. And so she turns to Tareq who shows her first, Cairo, and then herself.

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  • kayleigh hughes

    what about the song she sang? in the part tareq gave her a neckless and the part she was in a taxi with her husband and she asked driver to turn it louder but he switched the channel? it was a great song.

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  • Brooke London

    Sorry, you will have to investigate on your own as I do not have that information.

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  • prettypinkster

    do you guys know the name of the lady that sings in arabic while they're riding the taxis, the one tareq calls "the mother of egypt"?

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  • Brooke London

    Um Kalthoum is the mother of Egypt

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  • Vanessa Martínez

    alguien sabe como se llama este tema?

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  • Brooke London

    Este es un pedazo de la música de la banda de sonido de la película "Cairo Time" - la canción es llamada "Juliette is Happy"

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  • jarvais56

    I loved this track in the movie. I really wana learn to play it on the piano. It's beautiful. :)

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  • youtubingid

    I love this piece.

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  • Menna Mohammed

    singer name is Um Kalthum and song is ( Enta Omry ) means you are my life

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  • mostafa helmy

    its Egyptian song for oum kalthoum called Alf lila we lila :)

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  • Yasmine Mustafa

    this was an "om kalthoum" song called "alf lela w lela" "one thousand and one night"

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  • Juanita Thomas

    it was the Everly Brothers Til I Kissed You

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  • Mediterranean21

    Oum kalthoum " Alf Lila wa Lila" ام كلثوم : الف ليلة و ليلة

    Often translated to Arabian knights in English

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  • max22z

    Yes... its Um Kalthom ... the legend of middle east

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  • Ben Morales-Correa

    Till I kissed you - The Everly Brothers

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  • farhan3d

    Why oh why did the movie end the way it did? :'( The Arab guy was such a gentleman, and that horrid husband of hers looked like he came straight from a trash can.

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