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I've had this film for some time and finally got into it...
Gertrude Bell another eccentric & clever English fruitcake..but they do her an injustice here.
Beautifully directed and filmed.
Werner Hertzog, a right German nutter also directed another German 'nutter Klaus Kinski. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000173/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm
So, it's all a bit flimsy on the historical facts, but the camel scenes are to die-for and really nice camels..
*back to the film.......
my clementine...
The bedu...
They taught me how to make a camel love you...
And also, how to love the Blu...
"The Salvation of Mankind lies in making everything the responsibility of All"
Sophocles.
I had been given a book by a female companion and written by some bloke called Paolo, it was about a bloke riding a camel through the desert,
very apt I thought, considering our circumstances.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Coelho
If you happen to be a couple of months out towards Libya on the back of a Camel, 'I thoroughly recommend reading it.
'One can read quite comfortably whilst riding one's camel, but one cannot write as wrongly depicted in Lawrence of Arabia
and just noticed the same in the end of this film..
"The Salvation of Mankind lies in making everything the responsibility of All"
Sophocles.
When venturing into the desert around Luxor, you can find many interesting fossils and stones, including fossilised sea shells and squid like creatures, proving that the area must have once been...
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Here’s some from Malquatta, I particularly like the one that (with a bit of imagination) looks like the head of Horus. ;)
I had an email yesterday telling me that once a month there is going to be a Desert Island Disc night at Sherharazad Hotel.
Been making my list :
Concierto De Aarnjuez..Rodrigo,
Nimrod..Elgar,
Whiter...