Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.
Directed by Yousry Nasrallah
IMDB
N/A
Letterboxd
3.4 / 5
Cast
Hend Sabry
Laila
Amr Waked
Youssef
Gamil Ratib
Youssef's Father
Samah Anwar
Marguerite
Bassem Samra
Zakki
Dorra Zarrouk
Marwa
Ahmed Al Fishawy
Amr
Asser Yassin
Laila Samy
Yara Goubran
Salwa Mohamed Ali
Tarek Mandour
Crew
Yousry Nasrallah
Director
Yousry Nasrallah
Writer
Mona Rabie
Editor
Gaby Khoury
Producer
Tamer Karawan
Music
Popular Reviews
11 reviews
Ahmed Selim
7.0★ · 01/10/26
Unique experience
Unique experience
ZZAP
This is how I get fish and chips?
This is how I get fish and chips?
Yumna
4.9★ · 10/31/24
Weird but interesting.
Weird but interesting.
strawberry milkshake
I can’t tell if she’s playing with them or trying to fish them
I can’t tell if she’s playing with them or trying to fish them