![]() ![]() Bell published several books documenting her travels and there are also several volumes of her letters, although they are hard to find in print. Two biographies have been written about Bell, and both are worth reading: Georgina Howell’s 2006 book Queen of the Desert and Janet Wallach’s 1996 effort Desert Queen. Drawing on more than 1,000 pieces of archival footage, 1,700 documents and 1,600 letters, the filmmakers painstakingly pieced together a compelling narrative that managed to convey both the depth of Bell’s experience and her tortured love life. Ī project that did do justice to Bell arrived the next year: Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum’s Letters from Baghdad: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Gertrude Bell. Critics panned the film, in which Herzog largely glossed over Bell’s political work in favour of her ill-fated romances. ![]() While there were high hopes he would do a worthy job of directing the biopic, when Queen of the Desert arrived in 2015 it was a disappointment. At one point, two feature films were in the works, but only German director Werner Herzog’s project starring Nicole Kidman would be made. ![]()
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