The fact that every one of the characters is looking for the same thing – security – makes you feel attached to them. He is like a big child – honest, not artificial. His mature, responsible yet child-like warmth gives you the absolute comfort to feel connected with him. Similarly, Asser Yassin makes you adore his character as well. It is as if Yahia’s sun can’t rise unless Nora opens her window and takes a look at his life. Her character makes you feel like she is the butterfly of the film, fragile and beautiful.
Like any other woman, Nora wants a man who can provide her with warmth and security – and this is what she finds in Yahia.īasma Ahmad plays this role very well. In actual fact, Nora is a second wife looking for security, as she is coldly treated by her husband. The fact that Yahia believes she is a prostitute doesn’t stop him from falling in love with her. She accepts, and that how their love story starts. She hints that she is interested in him, and he offers her a cup of tea in his flat. She offers him shelter under the umbrella, and then she walks with him to his building until the rain stops. To complicate matters further, one rainy night Yahia meets Nora (Basma Ahmad), a beautiful lady hiding under an umbrella from the rain. The move to Alexandria reignites old memories of Yahia’s ex-girlfriend, Carla (Samia Asaad), but Carla is now in love with another woman, Riham (Doa’a Higazi), which causes him a great deal of confusion. The need to look after himself, to have his own private life and experience new things, sees him embark on a journey to find his own identity, and ultimately, to accept himself. He has lived most of his life semi-dependent on his mother and brother, but when his mother passes away and his brother moves to the United States, he finds himself alone. Yahia has a stutter, which creates a sort of shield around him that isolates him from the society. The story follows Yahia (Asser Yassin) who moves from Cairo to his family’s flat in Alexandria after the death of his mother. ‘Rassayel El Bahr’ is not a story about individuals, but it instead addresses more of a philosophical question that every human being at some point asks themselves – who am I?
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Writing about ‘Rassayel El Bahr’ makes me think of my grandmother’s favourite Mcetkh perfume, ‘Amarige’ warmly surrounded with the old Florentine buildings of Alexandria, and the soft piano melodies flowing from the windows of its cafes. Set in Alexandria, ‘Rassayel El Bahr’ (‘Messages from the Sea’) is a story as smooth as a piece of dark chocolate: light, yet bold and very fulfilling.
Stars: Sam Mounir, Basma Ahmad, Mohamed Lotfy, Asser Yassin Film: Rassayel El Bahr (Messages from the Sea)
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