Queen of the Desert

2015
PG-13
2h 8min

NOTE IMDb

5,7/10

13 k

MA NOTE

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.

Lire trailer3:18

1 Video

95 photos

Desert Adventure Period Drama Adventure Biography Drama History Romance

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA 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.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.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.

Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro

NOTE IMDb

5,7/10

13 k

MA NOTE

Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro

Récompenses
- 1 nomination au total

Vidéos1

Trailer 3:18

International Trailer

Photos95

+ 88

Vous aimerez aussi

5,7

4,2

5,3

6,6

6,4

6,5

7,5

Dior: Dior Homme Intense City

6,1

The Wild Blue Yonder

6,9

Le pays où rêvent les fourmis vertes

6,1

Dans l'oeil d'un tueur

6,5

Being the Ricardos

5,2

Strangerland

Histoire

Modifier

Le saviez-vous

Modifier

Anecdotes
On their first day of filming, James Franco and Nicole Kidman climbed a tower, where a vulture sat. Prior to filming the scene, Werner Herzog had found the vulture by coincidence, with its owner, by the side of the road and decided to put it into the film. The vulture was not trained for such screen roles, and tried to peck Kidman, but luckily it was on a leash. This scene is one of Kidman's favorite in the film.

Gaffes
Gertrude Bell and Winston Churchill 's wife Clementine were cousins on her father's side i.e. via his sister. In spite of the first scene where Churchill asks "Who is this Gertrude Bell?", in real-life he was very much aware of who she was.

Citations
Gertrude Bell: Nightingale with drops in heart bleed. A fed red rose. Then came the wind. And catching her, jealous branches. I have coiled heart with a hundred thorns

Crédits fous
The credits are shown over footage of sand blowing across the desert.

Versions alternatives
A new cut with a running time of 110 minutes was presented at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles on Nov.8 2015. The original version, which premiered in Feb. 2015 at the Berlinale and was released in some countries, has a running time of 128 minutes.

Connexions
Featured in Werner Herzog, cinéaste de l'impossible (2022)

Bandes originales
Les Nubiemes Valse
from the ballet "Faust"
Written by Charles Gounod
Performed by Vaughan Jones and The Manor House String Ensemble

Avis des utilisateurs133

Commenter

Commentaire à la une

4/10

Context misunderstanding

Obviously the director of this movie does not understand the context of the middle east and he is taking this part of the world as a bulk and treating it as a whole. When in Tehran they speak Arabic, Tehran is in Iran they speak Farisi not Arabic, when in the market one guy is obviously Moroccan while the movie is narrating a middle eastern story (Amman Jordan) different dialect, and the Beddouin music always starting with Allah W Akbar which is a religious chant not necessarily specific to the middle east where you can find Christians, Kurds and a lot more ethnicity. To make long story short the director reflected his understanding of the ME based on orientalist concepts and not real facts.