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Desert Flower
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The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3, sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to work in London, where a photographer (Timothy Spall) and an agent (Juliet Stevenson) turn her into a top supermodel.
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#Awa Saïd Darar #Desert Flower #Idriss Abdillahi Houfaneh #Sherry Hormann #Soraya Omar-Scego
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Back Stage
March 18, 2011 A stirring story that mixes personal horror, courage and eventually triumph.
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Common Sense Media
April 11, 2011 Mature biopic has moving drama but lacks coherence.
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Slant Magazine
March 20, 2011 The film's unabashed willingness to go from bleak topical piece on genital mutilation to guilty-pleasure glamour can be disconcerting.
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Chicago Sun-Times
March 31, 2011 It has a compelling message and surrounds it with biopic scenes that appear to be brought in from a different kind of movie. The effect is rather unsettling.
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New York Times
March 18, 2011 "Desert Flower," a well-made film that depicts the remarkable life of the model Waris Dirie, manages to be both a classic feel-good story and about as far from a feel-good story as you can get.
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Oregonian
March 31, 2011 Waris' saga is one that needs to be told, but this well-meaning dramatization might have had more power if it were a documentary.
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Film Journal International
August 15, 2011 This inspiring story of a nomad-turned-model is executed in the style of a made-for-TV movie.
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IMDb: 7
2017
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
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