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Released Year: 2009
Runtime: 120 minutes
Directors: Sherry Hormann, Sherry Hormann
Casts: Anthony Mackie, Eckart Friz, Sally Hawkins, Craig Parkinson, Timothy Spall, Meera Syal, Anastasia Hille, Juliet Stevenson, William de Coverly, Liya Kebede, Teresa Churcher, Lucrezia Phantazia, Soraya Omar-Scego, Anna Hilgedieck, Matthew Alexander Kaufman, Prashant Prabhakar, Tim Seyfi, Nick Raio, Safa Idriss Nour, Nigel Betts, Michele Thevenet
IMDB: Desert Flower (2009)
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Chicago Sun-Times -
Desert Flower tells a rags-to-riches story, but it plays like two stories in conflict. Everything involving Waris in Africa or in London before her success feels true and heartfelt. Many later details are badly handled.
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Village Voice -
Luckily, her cast makes up for the lapses, and Kebede is especially effective at showing how triumph over culturally sanctioned brutality remains a tentative prospect at best.
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Los Angeles Times -
A lovely performance by Ethiopian supermodel-actress Liya Kebede as supermodel-activist Waris Dirie works wonders to elevate this uneven, occasionally awkward but often absorbing film.
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NPR -
The broad comedy clashes with the movie's final message: that 6,000 girls face genital mutilation every day.
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Boxoffice Magazine -
The film proves a gripping, if uneven, cinematic journey.
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Desert Flower (2009)
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
Desert Flower (2009)
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...
Information
Released Year: 2009
Runtime: 120 minutes
Directors: Sherry Hormann, Sherry Hormann
Casts: Anthony Mackie, Eckart Friz, Sally Hawkins, Craig Parkinson, Timothy Spall, Meera Syal, Anastasia Hille, Juliet Stevenson, William de Coverly, Liya Kebede, Teresa Churcher, Lucrezia Phantazia, Soraya Omar-Scego, Anna Hilgedieck, Matthew Alexander Kaufman, Prashant Prabhakar, Tim Seyfi, Nick Raio, Safa Idriss Nour, Nigel Betts, Michele Thevenet
IMDB: Desert Flower (2009)
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The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
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Reviews
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Chicago Sun-Times -
Desert Flower tells a rags-to-riches story, but it plays like two stories in conflict. Everything involving Waris in Africa or in London before her success feels true and heartfelt. Many later details are badly handled.
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Village Voice -
Luckily, her cast makes up for the lapses, and Kebede is especially effective at showing how triumph over culturally sanctioned brutality remains a tentative prospect at best.
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Los Angeles Times -
A lovely performance by Ethiopian supermodel-actress Liya Kebede as supermodel-activist Waris Dirie works wonders to elevate this uneven, occasionally awkward but often absorbing film.
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NPR -
The broad comedy clashes with the movie's final message: that 6,000 girls face genital mutilation every day.
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Boxoffice Magazine -
The film proves a gripping, if uneven, cinematic journey.
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The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.