Silence... We're Rolling
(Skoot Hansawwar)

Under the veil of the musical, Silence… We’re Rolling is a reflection of the world. The film set becomes a miniature of Egyptian society, where the jostling of power, desire, and the gaze is endlessly replayed. Behind the songs and jealousies, Chahine reflects on mise-en-scène itself: who directs, who watches, who owns the image? In this theater of passions, the light-footedness of entertainment mingles with a grave meditation on power, illusion, and the sincerity of the gaze. The film moves like a fragile dance — pathetic yet solemn — celebrating with gusto a belief in cinema: that art which, even though disillusioned, remains the one place where life gets to be performed anew.
Jérôme Baron