Written and directed by Zeina Durra
Starring Andrea Riseborough, Karim Saleh, Shirin Redha and Michael Landes
Running time: 1 hour and 25 minutes

by Audrey Callerstrom

Luxor is a film more interested in showing you a place rather than a story. But what a place. If hearing “Luxor” made you think of the pyramid-shaped Las Vegas hotel rather than the one of the oldest cities in the world, same here. Luxor (not the hotel) served as the capital of ancient Egypt and is the site of the famous city of Thebes. The city has evidence of habitation going back over 5,000 years. That’s unfathomable to me. The only place I can find something more than 100 years old in my city is by getting in the car and driving to a museum, and even then, those artifacts roughly go back a thousand years.