HSaid -one of the best movies i have ever saw...incredibly stunning...a movie that defies all genres and bringing them all in 1 classic film. the movie is dramatic, comedic, musical, historic, everyyyyyyyyythin...it shows that what is goin on now, in our lives, happened in the past..the world isnt changing...its just growing older...an incredible film...showing us more on the life of the islamic empire, the form of spain, the muslim extrimism and how long it begand and how it affects people...A MUST SEE MOVIE..u have to c it..i give it 10/10 with no ifs, ands or buts...EGYPTIAN FILMMAKER YOUSSEF CHAHINE HAS PROVEN TO BE THE BEST FILMMAKER THAT EVER LIVED BY DOING THIS FILM...surpasing all barriers, in a daring form of art...i consider this movie one of my favourite ever...so magical, mystical, phenominal....a trymph-you MKUST also check other excellent youssef chahine films, try to get them in any way..the movies i highly recomend are: Cairo Station, Alexandria Why, An Egyptian Story, The Immigrant, Silence we're rolling, Salahdine, The Other, The Sixth Day, and GoodBye Bonaparte...i saw all of these films..and u should too..these are the remarks and main original structure of cinema all around the world..

claude-18 Americans and Europeans should treat themselves to the courageous joy of this infectious film, if you can find it. If you're looking for Latcho Drom with a great story, this is it!Destiny is singularly beautiful in that it celebrates humanist passions and ideas as they were once allowed to be expressed in the Islamic culture of 12th century Spain. The Egyptian director Youssef Chahine ventures this anti-fundamentalist statement in a contemporary cultural climate where fundamentalism is on the rise. It exposes the street fascism and subtle eroticism that seduces young men into such sects.Destiny is exuberant. It has humor, music, dancing, free thinking dialogue, intriguing sets and architecture and, most of all, the ensemble portrayal of a joyful philosophic community whose members you can really grow to love. All the earthly things fundamentalists detest!Chahine deserves a larger world audience, by virtue of his bravery and outspoken-ness. He argues at risk of his own life in this film. If Akira Kurosawa could be embraced so wholeheartedly by the international community, so should Chahine. This film is a landmark. I hope financing from our part of the world will find its way to him. He has guts and passion.The film itself is like nothing else you will see made on these shores. It is emotionally unabashed. Our western ideals of coolness and hipness restrict many of our directors and actors. Passion is too often reserved for climactic moments, and commonly those moments are angry intimidation or vengeance scenes sparked by the Pacino clones of the world. Much of the actor's job is running and posing. In Destiny, the actors are not posing - they are joyfully uninhibited and alive!Recommended highly!! Vigorous entertainment. Brave ideas. Exotic sets. Bold, hand-hewn directorial craftsmanship. Great true story. And your only chance to see 12th century Andalusian culture come alive!

khachaba The movie is simply great. So beautiful, so entertaining, so well-made. As beautiful as I had expected from yousef shaheen, the director, as a leader of the modern Egyptian movie making. The ideal declared by the film is a throbbing hot one. Liberal thought and freedom from all pre-made and superimposed thought is a subject that I never saw treated in such an open manner, especially in a conservative society like the Egyptian one. The Camera playing, the lighting modules, the music, the positioning of the right song in the right situation are all points that count on the director's side. The scene where the Khaleefa says: "I'm the Andalus" with him being zoomed out to appear dotted in the centre of the screen, is one scene that I don't think will forget. The actors choice was also very successful. If you have never seen an Egyptian film before, this is a good one to start with.

Cath-10 This is a wonderful movie on tolerance. Chahine shows how the powers of dance, happiness and erudition oppose the dark forces of obscurantism and fanatism. Not only is the movie never rhetorically boring, but it is full of joy and music, making you feel like dancing ! This is definitely a masterpiece.