The Thief and the Dogs
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
Heavy, kinetic, measured mahfouz / noir, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →This film, inspired by Naguib Mahfouz' The thief and the dogs, tells the story of Mahran, a thief who quickly ascends to be the head of his gang. However, his second in command conspires against Mahran to take his position and his wife. After his prison term, Mahran is thirsty for revenge. But being chased by the police and by his new enemies destines him to a tragic life in hiding.
Our read · The Thief and the Dogs (1962) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded mahfouz · noir · betrayal entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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“You want a tragic Egyptian crime story of betrayal, revenge and inevitable fall.”
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