Also passionless, Franco isn't given anything meaty from Herzog the screenwriter. He's a junior diplomat and he's played very irksomely by James Franco (all squints and no accent). In Queen of the Desert, Bell is presented less a woman who engaged with cultures that discounted a woman's ability to have adventures (both in Britain and in the Middle East) and more as a woman who had tough luck with love.īell meets her first suitor in Tehran. If that sounds like a superficial complaint (it is incredibly distracting as you're unaware if Herzog is playing these age games with anyone else she encounters), Herzog himself treats Bell superficially. But Kidman is obviously 20 to 25 years older than Earl and they are presented as being within the same aged ballpark this is an absurdly comical miscalculation by Herzog, but, many years later, when Bell should look hardened by the years of sand blasts and months of captivity within an Arabian harem, Kidman still does not fit the part, for she's pearly, soft, and still passionless. Her cousin, Florence ( Holly Earl), is introduced as a naive and a romantic rival to Bell for any potential suitor.
As performed by Kidman, Bell curiously seems passionless about her passion to see the world. Coming from a hugely influential estate, Bell is trotted out as a possible marrying partner by her parents, and Kidman is not directed as a young woman who's not seen any of the world before, she's directed and performed as a fully-formed woman who has already seen it all and done it all.
One doesn't want to call attention to Kidman's age, but Herzog bizarrely does so by placing an age title card and then a digital segue from that photograph to Kidman complaining of not having enough excitement or responsibility after graduating at the top of her class at Oxford.
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