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Queen of the Desert
Directed by
Werner Herzog
PG-13
2015
2h 8m
Drama
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History
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and more
5.7
18%
36%
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A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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Cast of Queen of the Desert
Nicole Kidman
Gertrude Bell
James Franco
Henry Cadogan
Damian Lewis
Richard Wylie
Jay Abdo
Fattuh
Robert Pattinson
T.E. Lawrence
Jenny Agutter
Florance Bell
David Calder
Hugh Bell
Christopher Fulford
Winston Churchill
Nick Waring
Sir Mark Sykes
Holly Earl
Florence Lascelles
Sophie Linfield
Judith
Mark Lewis Jones
Lascelles
Beth Goddard
Aunt Lascelles
Michael Jenn
Thompson
William Ellis
Earl of Chester
John Wark
Arnold Runcie
Richard Goulding
Havenhurst
Charlie Hollway
Hairdresser
Younes Benzakour
Abdullah
Hamza El Moustaati
Omar
Abdellah Bensaidi
Dispatcher
Abdellatif Chawqui
Lieutenant
Megan Sullivan
Secretary
Mohamed Boussalem
Druze Sheikh
Mehdi Quazzani
Warrior
Mostafa El Houari
Druze Warrior
Hamid Najah
Fortune Teller
Mohamed Ziat
Old Man
Anas El Baz
Horseman
Qualid Mezouar
Dignitary
Hicham Haijji
Minister
Abderrahmane Baalla
Sheikh Harb
Nick N. Raslan
Shop Owner
Amadou Salah
Hamad
Ismael Kanater
Hayil Gate Keeper
Fehd Benchemsi
Ibrahim
Nadia Niazi
Fatima
Fatima ezzahra El Jaouhari
Turkkiyeh
Anas Cherifi
Emir
Francis Montary
Reporter
Colin Goodwin
General
Peter Stevenson
Colonel
Ayoub Layoussifi
King Abdullah
Younes Bouab
King Faisal
Assaad Bouab
Sheikh
Sarah Crowden
Lady Ascot (uncredited)
Renee Faia
Farsi voice actor (uncredited)
Mustafa Haidari
Farsi voice actor (uncredited)
Christina Low
Handmaiden (uncredited)
Queen of the Desert Ratings & Reviews
RogerEbert.com
Angelica Jade Bastién
An emotionally empty, thematically ill-defined, and listless affair. It is never able to communicate the complexity of the woman at its center.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The script Herzog himself has written to dramatize Bell's life, and the film he has made from that script, is laughably hollow and inert.
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
A bland departure from the director's normally madcap norm.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
For a movie with so much heart, "Queen of the Desert" is a remarkably bloodless enterprise.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
Despite Kidman's best efforts, almost nothing clicks on an emotional level, and the movie passes as slowly as sand through an hourglass.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
The result is a well-made invitation to nod off.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
All lavish period detail and stiff upper lips, it's a handsome bore-maybe the most dismayingly ordinary movie Herzog has ever made.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
It's a great story, but the movie has a flatness that can't be denied.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
As stunningly picturesque as all of this undeniably proves to be, Queen of the Desert is a barren emotional quagmire, Bell's incredible story deserving of so much more than this movie sadly proves to be willing to offer.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Throughout Queen of the Desert's narrative, there's no sense of danger, of texture, or even of a rudimentary idea of what's truly driving Gertrude Bell.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Bell was an extraordinary figure, tailor-made for a dazzling presence like Kidman, but Werner Herzog, directing his own script, unwisely structures Bell's story around her intimate relationships with men.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
Even the stodgiest biopic would be redeemed by Mr. Herzog's eye. The shots that track Bell into her meetings with Arab leaders may have you catching your breath.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
The main flaws in "Queen" ... are a lurching narrative coupled with dialogue awkwardness, and a blas approach to Bell's motivations.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
A lifeless, brainless costume drama from, of all people, Werner Herzog.
Village Voice
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
Herzog's latest narrative feature is a failure of such a baffling degree that it may leave you wondering whether he suffered sunstroke in the desert heat while filming it.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
A passionless trudge that lacks both sweep and psychological complexity.
Slant Magazine
Kenji Fujishima
All the film adds up to, unfortunately, is a sweeping romantic epic made with barely any persuasive romantic feeling underpinning it.
RogerEbert.com
Michael Pattison
Given the intrigues and even political insights that a serious, fully committed treatment of Bell's life might have resulted in, it's a shame her years in the land she loved are apparently reducible to ill-fated investments in two bland, charmless men.
The Playlist
Jessica Kiang
"Queen of the Desert" is such a disappointment when you consider the wild portraits of pioneers that Herzog has given us before, that he's so reverent here.
indieWire
Neil Young
A stunning misfire.
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