Room to Rent (2000)

Written by Khalid Al-Haggar, Amanda McKenzie Stuart

Directed by Khalid Al-Haggar

Running Time: 120 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 2000

Rating: 15 Certificate

Production Country: France/UK

Filmed in Colour

Saïd Taghmaoui is Ali, an Egyptian student trying to make it as a writer in London. Threatened with deportation, he marries Juliette Lewis, a nightclub Monroe-impersonator and gets entangled with gay photographer Rupert Graves, who offers him a room for just a few artistic magazine shots. And, as a part-time belly-dance instructor, life gets further complicated when he has to fend off the attentions of 40-something pupil Clementine Celarie in Khaled Al Haggar's debut film, a delightfully unusual comedy drama.

Cast

	Saïd Taghmaoui		Ali
	Juliette Lewis		Linda
	Rupert Graves		Mark
	Anna Massey		Sarah Stevenson
	Karim Belkhadra		Ahmed
	Richard Lumsden		Sam
	Clémentine Célarié		Vivienne
	Flaminia Cinque		Margreta
	Maureen O'Farrell		Belly dancer
	Nayef Rashed		Naief
	Badia Obaid		Ali's mother
	Ramadan Nahyar		Ali's sister
	Adam El Hagar		Ali's brother
	Sahar Gadel-Kareem		Ali's young sister
	Louis Hammond		Pedro
	Shobu Kapoor		Home office official
	Chris Langham		Mr. Paul
	Christopher Simon		Dick
	Kevin Wainwright		Sean
	Felix Dexter		Policeman
	Simon Macallum		Policeman
	Robert Lang		Mark's father
	Christopher Campbell		Vicar
	Brenda Cowling		Church lady
	Shane Taylor		Fernando
	Stephen Brogan		Lisa
	Liam Noble		Bouncer
	Roger Frost		Martin