If you loved Last Days in the Desert, try Queen of the Desert

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Last Days in the Desert

2016 · dir. Rodrigo García

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Theyboth carry the slow burn mood tag, and they sit in Adventure / Drama / History territory. If that's the register that drew you to Last Days in the Desert, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Queen of the Desert is

Lawrence of Arabia meets The Eagle Huntress as a woman navigates the shifting sands of empire with a theodolite in one hand and a rifle in the other. Gertrude Bell’s maps redrew the map, and her letters read like dispatches from another planet. A lone woman carries an empire across the desert on foot.

If you loved Last Days in the Desert, try Queen of the Desert

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If you loved Last Days in the Desert, try Queen of the Desert

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What they share

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