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Certified Mail

  • 2019
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
138
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Basma in Certified Mail (2019)
Drama

Since her husband went to jail, Hala has to face her suicidal thoughts alone. Her strength has to come from within as society does not help nor forgive a depressed woman, specially if she is... Read allSince her husband went to jail, Hala has to face her suicidal thoughts alone. Her strength has to come from within as society does not help nor forgive a depressed woman, specially if she is a mother.Since her husband went to jail, Hala has to face her suicidal thoughts alone. Her strength has to come from within as society does not help nor forgive a depressed woman, specially if she is a mother.

  • Director
    • Hisham Saqr
  • Writer
    • Hisham Saqr
  • Stars
    • Basma
    • Passant Shawky
    • Sayyed El-Abasiri
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.8/10
    138
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Hisham Saqr
    • Writer
      • Hisham Saqr
    • Stars
      • Basma
      • Passant Shawky
      • Sayyed El-Abasiri
    • 3User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Basma
    Basma
    • Halah
    Passant Shawky
    Passant Shawky
    • Muna
    Sayyed El-Abasiri
    • Hagg Farag
    Ibrahim El-Batout
    Ibrahim El-Batout
    • Bank manager
    Israr El-Sharif
    • Hind
    Ahmad Gad
    • Mahmood
    Hanan Kairullus
    • Kiosk lady
    Muhammed Mansour
    • Lawyer
    Rafal
    • Nimah
    Amirah Salem
    • Nurse
    Muhammad Sarhan
    • Khaled
    Lubna Wanas
    • Mother
    Layla Yaqoob
    • School manager
    • Director
      • Hisham Saqr
    • Writer
      • Hisham Saqr
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    5moamed_messi10

    Basma is the only shiny thing in the underwhelming film

    Despite all the efforts to tell this story, there is a huge gap between male perspective when telling stories about women than women talking about themselves.

    Yes we get the core of the idea, but the scenes where always underwhelming.

    The biggest issue with this film is a technical one, the director is also an editor and the writer of the film, yet he failed to connect the main plot properly, the basic rules of writing a scenario tells you when in the movie run time you should put your main plot.

    The main plot was the appearance of these letters, it was too late to connect this event with the timeline.

    We don't care about style as much as the film maker was overwhelmed with his genre style and the film's directing school, he got lost trying to achieve visual and editing goals.

    Basma were the best part of this movie, it's always lovely to see her on camera even if she is not doing anything, her performance was warm and kept me on track with the mood of the film.

    The film is not as bad as my review looks, but egyptian indie cinema (not a mainstream or a box office movie at least) keeps doing the same mistakes over and over, It seem like your seeing the same movie every time and they are overwhelmed with each other movies.

    Trying to achieve a poetic film or a progressive film or whatsoever the genre or the film school you want to pursue doesn't mean we as audience don't get a solid well connected movie.
    1faragah

    Rated 1

    I rated the film 1, starting from the first scene you will have the impression it will not be an exciting movie, No story, very poor script, even thw movie name is not expressive.

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    • Release date
      • December 19, 2019 (Brazil)
    • Country of origin
      • Egypt
    • Language
      • Arabic
    • Also known as
      • Courrier Certifié
    • Production companies
      • Film-Clinic
      • White Feather
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      1 hour 35 minutes
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