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Queen of the Desert Striking cinematography dominates this languid-paced, factually based, love-it-or-hate-it, 128-minute, 2015 Werner Herzog biographical film that documents the extraordinary life of independent, feisty, influential English writer, poet, photographer, archaeologist, cartographer, and political attaché Gertrude Bell (Nicole Kidman) as she leaves her wealthy parents (David Calder and Jenny Agutter) in England and travels throughout the dangerous, war-torn Middle East in the early 1900s with her trusted longtime friend and Arab guide Fattuh (Jay Abdo), her romance with British Colonel Henry Cadogan (James Franco) and her attraction to smitten and married Damascus General Consul Charles "Richard" Doughty-Wylie (Damian Lewis), the highly unusual and unexpected friendship and respect she garners with powerful sheikhs (Assaad Bouab, Mohamed Bousalem, et al.), and her eventual work and collaboration with Sir Winston Churchill (Christopher Fulford) and T.E. Lawrence (Robert Pattison) in delineating the Bedouin, Persian, and Iraq borders.
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