Though the selection of movies on Netflix isn’t as adventurous as the world of movies over all, there’s an international masterwork hiding in plain sight there that, among other things, expands the very concept of personal filmmaking. “Alexandria: Again and Forever,” the 1989 film by the Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine, is a bold combination of many genres: it’s a romantic melodrama and a riotous comedy, a political drama, a memory piece, and a work of self-referentiality set in the milieu of Egyptian filmmaking, all held together by a passion for Shakespeare. What’s more, it features the sixty-something director himself (who died, in 2008, at the age of eighty-two) in a lead performance that’s both floridly exuberant and unreservedly intimate.

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