BERLIN Australian actress Nicole Kidman garnered all eyes on today’s session of the 65th edition of the Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale) with the premiere of his film Queen of the Desert.
Under orders from German director Werner Herzog, actress of 47 years broke all your adventurous potential and skin of the British spy Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) becomes involved in a series of events facing this woman whom the protagonist of red Mill described as «extraordinary».
A Kidman’s escort Queen of the Desert in the American James Franco (127 hours), alongside the British Robert Pattinson (Twilight) and Damien Lewis (Homeland), which integrate a complicated picture of love in the desert.
According to the protagonist, one of the major attractions that the film is the fact that is based on the life of a person who existed in real life, as in the case of Bell, who among his many activities also exerted a writer, traveler, political officer and administrator.
«I knew nothing of it, I wanted people to know her,» said Kidman on the historical woman, considered a vital cog in the complicated business of defining the boundaries of the region after World War II.
«It’s a fascinating female character, a woman with a very beautiful complex inner life,» the filmmaker Werner Herzog when asked what inspired him to recreate the events summarized in Queen of the Desert.
