After walking miles in the desert waris finally finds her. Diries lifestory is inspiring, her experiences as young girl are tragic, and her ability to speak out against a custom that has long been hidden is impressive. As a teenager, she fled her village after being sold to a man who was already married to three women. Desert flower is a deeply emotional drama with light comedic moments that tells the true story of waris dirie, a somali woman who had undergone female genital mutilation at 3 years old, escaped her rural home village before an arranged marriage at, became an indentured servant to the somali ambassador in london, and then, by chance, was. It has a compelling message and surrounds it with biopic scenes that appear to be brought in from a different kind of movie.
Waris dirie author and protagonist who escapes her somali nomad life after finding out she has been placed in an arranged marriage. Desert flower is a superbly told story with unapologetic conviction, noticeable fire, and the purest intentions of moving your soul. The film follows the journey of waris dirie played by liya kebede from a nomadic. Desert flower quotes showing 18 of 8 i feel that god made my body perfect the way i was born. Desert flower is an important movie, but not a great one. Desert flower is a 2009 german biographical film directed by sherry hormann. It stars liya kebede, sally hawkins and craig parkinson, and is based on the somali born model waris dirie s autobiography. The extraordinary journey of a desert nomad, waris dirie waris dirie escaped from her native galkayo, somalia, fleeing to mogadishu to escape an arranged marriage. Desert flower trailer 2011 trailer addict movie trailers. It stars liya kebede, sally hawkins and craig parkinson, and is based on the som. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing desert flower near you. You may exchange or request a refund for your entire order, less the convenience fee, through fandango up until the posted showtime. The tale it seeks to lay out works on a number of levels.
The extraordinary true story of the woman who crossed a desert and changed the world. The extraordinary journey of a desert nomad is an autobiographical book written by waris dirie and cathleen miller, published in 1998 about the life of somali model, waris dirie. The extraordinary journey of a desert nomad book summary and study guide. Waris dirie ran away from her oppressive life in the african desert when she was barely in her teens, illiterate and impoverished, with nothing to her name but. It stars liya kebede, sally hawkins and craig parkinson, and is based on the somaliborn model waris diries eponymous autobiography. Shes maid at the somalian embassy in london, then mcdonalds, where shes discovered and becomes intl top model. Waris diries book desert flower, which recounts her incredible journey from an african nomad to an international top model, became a worldwide bestseller with more than 11 million copies sold. Moving with relatives to london, she worked for a while at a mcdonalds and was discovered by chance by fashion photographer terence donovan. It has a compelling message and surrounds it with biopic scenes that appear to. Desert flower is a great biopic film that aims for a specific message, and delivers that message powerfully and to great effect.
Released march 18th, 2011, desert flower stars liya kebede, sally hawkins, timothy spall, juliet stevenson the r movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 4 min, and received a. The movie is a close adaptation of the book, and as i watched the same emotions washed over me and tears rolled down my face. Waris did not see any of the film until it was complete. Despite suffering female genital mutilation fgm at the age of five, and its lifelong. She growed up in a nomad family and was a hardworking girl. Faced with having to return to the african continent a couple of years later, she went into hiding until star photographer terry donaldson came across her and changed everything. Waris dirie, born 1965 in somalia, flees at when sold as 4th wife.
Desert flower is a very powerful film that introduces many viewers to the atrocities of female genital mutilation, defined by the dictionary as fgm, also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is defined as all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non medical reasons. Synopsis desert flower is the autobiography of waris dirie. It stars liya kebede, sally hawkins and craig parkinson, and is based on the. Desert flower vertelt het waargebeurde verhaal van een arm. I thoroughly recommend you read the book, watch the movie and then read the other two books that follow desert flower. Desert flower tells an extraordinary story in an ordinary way. But the movie feels like a string of scenes stitched together, and they sometimes lack narrative structure. Waris dirie was born in galkayo, somalia in 1965 to a nomadic tribe. Somali nomad waris dirie runs away from an arranged marriage at the age of and ends up on the fashion runways of london, paris, and new york. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. In 1997, waris abandoned her modeling career to focus on her work against female circumcision.
Although she embraced the traditions of her tribe and loved her family, when her father tried to marry her off to a much older man for the price of 5 camels, she knew her only option was to run away. Desert flower 2011 stream and watch online moviefone. Everything involving waris in africa or in london before her success feels true and heartfelt. Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled. Desert flower,for all its minor failings as a film i stress minor planted. She eventually travels to london and becomes a worldrenowned super model and human rights activist the dirie family waris has an extremely closeknit family unit as they all participate in contributing to the familys business of raising animals. In order to avoid an arranged marriage, yearold waris dirie fled her village in the somali capital of mogadishu and made her way to london with the help of relatives. Desert flower trailer 2011 the trailer for desert flower. Desert flower also places an uncomfortable emphasis on celebrating waris professional success, even though the commercial exploitation of her beauty is just a less obvious form of. Desert flower tells a ragstoriches story, but it plays like two stories in conflict.