AN URBAN DRAMA that follows several parallel narratives, City of Life is reminiscent of Paul Haggis ’ Crash (2004), set in Los Angeles. Mostafa’s Dubai film follows events in the lives of an Indian taxi driver who is regularly mistaken for a Bollywood icon, an eastern European air hostess and her British advertising executive boyfriend who have a difficult relationship, and a pair of Emirati youths who speed through the city in pursuit of fights. https://caravanmagazine.in/rev....iews-and-essays/curt

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THERE IS NO LIGHT at the end of the tunnel, ” Masoud Al-Ali, a veteran Emirati film critic and documentary filmmaker, is reported to have said a little over a decade ago when asked about the prospects of the United Arab Emirates developing its own fi