Room to Rent

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.

Directed by Khaled El Hagar

Top cast

Saïd Taghmaoui

Ali

Juliette Lewis

Linda

Rupert Graves

Mark

Anna Massey

Sarah Stevenson

Clémentine Célarié

Vivienne

Liam Noble

Bouncer

Flaminia Cinque

Margreta

Karim Belkhadra

Ahmed

Maureen O'Farrell

Belly Dancer

Nayef Rashed

Naief

B

Badia Obaid

Ali's Mother

N

Nahar Sadayo

Ali's Sister

Adam El Hagar

Ali's Brother

S

Sahar Gadel-Kareem

Ali's Sister

L

Louis Hammond

Shobu Kapoor

Home Office Official

Chris Langham

Mr. Paul

C

Christopher Simon

Dick

K

Kevin Wainwright

Sean

Felix Dexter

Policeman 1

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