Whatever Lola Wants (2007)
Lola is struggling to pursue her dream of becoming a dancer in New York, but the auditions are disheartening and the rejections are piling up. By chance, during one of many evenings she spends commiserating with Yussef, her gay Egyptian neighbor, she’s captivated when he shows her an old video featuring the seductive belly dancing of Ismahan, one of Egypt’s biggest stars. Fate soon intervenes again when Lola happens to meet Zach, a handsome Egyptian attending business school in the United States. The two start a whirlwind romance, and through a series of twists, Lola finds herself in Cairo, where she decides to track down the reclusive Ismahan for lessons. There she learns not only the secrets of oriental dance but also the secret of Ismahan’s mysterious past.
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