The Youssef Chahine Podcast No. 8: The Sparrow

A dense and rich political film with extraordinary mise-en-scène that begins with an open letter to the Egyptian people and ends with Nasser informing Egypt of the loss of the Six Day War with Israel and announcing his resignation as the people take to the streets. The Sparrow is perhaps the least pleasurable of his films we've seen so far but very rewarding indeed. The more we talked about it and the more we read, the richer the film becomes.