Poster of OSS 117: Cairo

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Action, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Michel Hazanavicius

Release Date: May 9, 2008

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If you are well versed in old Bond movies & enjoy French comedies, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies is perfect. Some of the humor was lost in translation for me, but as the movie progressed, I chuckled. I enjoyed the clever use of old spy movie devices to reveal postmodern French government incompetence in its relationships with its Arab French citizens & immigrant community & how that incompetence creates problems that may not have existed if those citizens were treated with respect.

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