I have watched better Egyptian movies, no doubt, but this one is not bad at all. The acting is the strong point because I feel at times there are abrupt changes in the mood of the characters or story and is the acting that carries the movie. I also feel like they gave the first part of the story a motive for the tension between the main couple but it got lost somehow. I never understood the wife very much, her character needs serious developing, she kind of just floats around, I can never tell if she is a nice person or not, what is she besides a mother. It's such a shame because it would maybe add the next layer of complexity this film needed to be great. Still, worth a watch to understand the conflicts of such a complicated subject.
Review of Mawlana
