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James Franco

Damian Lewis

Jay Abdo

Robert Pattinson

Jenny Agutter

David Calder

Christopher Fulford

Nick Waring

Holly Earl

Sophie Linfield

Mark Lewis Jones

Beth Goddard

Michael Jenn

William Ellis

John Wark

Richard Goulding

Charlie Hollway

Younes Benzakour

Hamza El Moustaati

Abdellah Bensaidi

Abdellatif Chaouqi

Megan Sullivan

Mohamed Boussalem

Mehdi Quazzani

Mostafa El Houari

Hamid Najah

Mohamed Ziat

Anas El Baz

Qualid Mezouar

Hicham Haijji

Abderrahmane Baalla

Nick N. Raslan

Amadou Salah

Ismael Kanater

Fehd Benchemsi

Nadia Niazi

Fatima ezzahra El Jaouhari

Anas Cherifi

Francis Montary

Colin Goodwin

Peter Stevenson

Ayoub Layoussifi

Younes Bouab

Assaad Bouab

Sarah Crowden

Renee Faia

Mustafa Haidari

Christina Low

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Klaus Badelt

Peter Zeitlinger

Michael Benaroya

Jonathan Debin

Cassian Elwes

Cathy Gesualdo

Hicham Hajji

Hamid Herraf

James Lejsek

Shelley Madison

Ben Sachs

D. Todd Shepherd

Salaheddine Benchegra

Beth Charkham

Shannon Makhanian

Ulrich Bergfelder

Rabiaa N'Gadi

Caroline Steiner

Michele Clapton

Diala Al Raie

Zoubir Belgsir

Gisela Evert

Donall McCusker

Nancy Valle

Mohcine Nadifi

Mourad Ouarrirh

Jamal Al Adwan

Abderrahim Issouqine

Steven A. Saltzman

Alina Apostu

Stephanie Bamberg

Alessandro Bertolazzi

Kathryn Fa

Ivana Primorac

Marta Roggero

Alex Rouse

Luca Saccuman

Chiara Ugolini

Lorenzo Bertolazzi

Amine Lamriki

Ed Licht

Marouane Reda

Barnaby Riggs

Mehdi Souissi

Lucy Thomas

Skyler Detherage

Bill Devine

Joel Dougherty

Christopher Atkinson

Russell Farmarco

Eric Gotthelf

Ellen Heuer

Samantha Iorio

Laurent Kossayan

Nick Kray

Dan Kremer

Stacey Michaels

Jason Oliver

Abdouh Oussama

Tom Ozanich

Paul Paragon

Andrew Rice

Kyle Rochlin

Jeffrey Roy

Brad Sherman

John Joseph Thomas

Alex Ullrich

Ryan Young

Kaspar Kallas

Olaf Przybyszewski

Zarene Dallas

Benoît Fabre

Laura Väänänen

Asmaa Hafili

Lena Herzog

Thomas Hollaus

Paul Hymns

Zouggar Abdel Jalil

Aziz Lechgar

František Novák

Erik Söllner

Aziz Zougar

Abdel jalil Zouggar

Kathryn Donaldson

Robert Elhai

William Conacher

Stephen Hays

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> The woman who knew every inch of the middle-east!

It is a kind of female version of 'Lawrence of Arabia', the lead actress herself told that. A biographical drama of a British woman who had played an important role in many middle-eastern affairs during the early 1900s. After the tragic death of the man she was madly in love, the young Gertrude Bell decides to travel across the middle-east to write about it and to do some archaeological research and other stuffs. After the decades of travel on all the corners of the region, what she achieved was the film disclosed in an inspiring way.

I love this director's films and filmmaking style. It is his first time since last 6 years, but not good as I expected. It is a bit of both, documentary and feature film. Awesomely shot, I loved the camera work and actors too did so well. Nicole Kidman was brilliant, might be her best for portraying in a real life character. Yet something was missing from the film. Maybe the film came at the wrong time, should have been made at least 15 years ago. Otherwise, it is an Oscar worthy product.

This film is worth watching for the beautiful desert landscapes and obviously for Kidman. The issue with the story is the focus which completely relied on Kidman's role. She was everywhere and leaving blank on the other end. Something like showing what she accomplished was the notion, so in perspective, it could have made a better documentary film. Some people might like it, especially if you're from the middle-east. But don't expect I would recommend it, because I won't. Whatever I said the film was not bad, just a 50-50 kind.

5/10

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Despite assembling a decent enough cast, this biopic of the formidable desert adventurer Gertrude Bell is really little better than a fine example of the arts of cinematography in sandy and windy climes. She (Nicole Kidman) is in Arabia as the Ottoman Empire continues to decline and the European powers pick over it's bones. Her arrival in British Egypt introduces her to her first love "Cadogan" (James Franco) - the third secretary at the British mission but that romance, like her entire life on the nearby peninsula, takes twists and turns before she meets soldier "Wylie" (Damian Lewis). All of this is happening against a backdrop of colonial expansion and her own desires to explore the place and make friends - especially difficult amidst a culture that had a very specific role for women. Gradually, though, she becomes respected and even a facilitator for the British running the British Arab Bureau that was instrumental in supporting the efforts of T.E. Lawrence (Robert Pattinson). It makes a bit more sense if you know some of the history, but otherwise this is a ponderously weak drama that spends way too long on, admittedly beautiful, establishing shots and nowhere near enough time developing the character of this courageous and intelligent woman. Kidman never catches fire in the role, her accent is certainly not British and she (and director Werner Herzog) struggle to get much out of the co-stars who look like they are just going through the motions. You do leave the film with a respect for the decency of the Bedouin aspiring just to be left alone to govern themselves, but the production itself is very much a case of style over substance.

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A review by Reno

Written by Reno on Thu Sep 01 2016

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