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[ watch Desert Flower online free ] Most importantly, this is Dirie's life—she is not condemning the culture, only asking for education and evolution.
The most serious moment is the reenactment of Dirie being circumcised as a three-year old girl, which is difficult to watch. As in 2009's Precious, the abuse is recounted with compassion and cinematic sensitivity.
Presented by National Geographic Entertainment, this is the first must-see movie of the year. With complaints that not enough black films were released in 2010, we have already started the new year on a high note with Desert Flower.
Hopefully by this time next year, the creators of this unforgettable flick will get the recognition they deserve during awards season.
Based on her autobiography, Desert Flower tells the story of fashion model Waris Dirie from her Somalian roots to the cover of Vogue magazine, highlighting the despicable practice of female circumcision that still continues today. This is not an ordinary topic for a biopic; its sinister theme should make the movie unmissable but under inexperienced director Sherry Horman it is nothing more than a hodge-podge of sitcom and drama, and the error is unforgivable.
We first see Waris in a London Top Shop, contemplating a little shoplifting. She's dead broke, sleeps on the streets and isn't averse to rummaging through rubbish bins for food.
Shop assistant Marylin (Sally Hawkins, as annoyingly chirpy as ever) warns her of the perils of pilfering which, to non-English speaking Waris, is the first positive thing to happen to her in the six years she's lived in London.
She follows Marylin to her cheap accommodation and basically foists herself upon her. Marylin gets her a job in a burger bar, buys English text books, and the girls bond.
It is while sweeping floors and cleaning slop at the burger joint that she's spotted by fashion photographer Terry Donaldson (Timothy Spall). In real life, Waris was discovered by Terence Donovan in a McDonalds, but for some reason the names have been changed here, don't ask me why.
Still, the fact remains that Donovan/Donaldson saw something in the bone structure of the under-nourished cleaning lady that convinced him to give her his card. She's all for binning it straight away but, thankfully,
Marylin knows her fashion and persuades her, several months later, to pop round and see him. She's soon on her way.
While this is going on we learn, through remembered flashbacks, of Waris' childhood (with some spectacular shots of African scenery) and the wickedness of Female Genital
Mutilation (FGM), which occurs when the clitoris is cut off with a razor blade and both inner and outer lips of the vulva are similarly dispatched.[ watch Desert Flower online free ]
[ watch Desert Flower online free ] Most importantly, this is Dirie's life—she is not condemning the culture, only asking for education and evolution.
The most serious moment is the reenactment of Dirie being circumcised as a three-year old girl, which is difficult to watch. As in 2009's Precious, the abuse is recounted with compassion and cinematic sensitivity.
Presented by National Geographic Entertainment, this is the first must-see movie of the year. With complaints that not enough black films were released in 2010, we have already started the new year on a high note with Desert Flower.
Hopefully by this time next year, the creators of this unforgettable flick will get the recognition they deserve during awards season.
Based on her autobiography, Desert Flower tells the story of fashion model Waris Dirie from her Somalian roots to the cover of Vogue magazine, highlighting the despicable practice of female circumcision that still continues today. This is not an ordinary topic for a biopic; its sinister theme should make the movie unmissable but under inexperienced director Sherry Horman it is nothing more than a hodge-podge of sitcom and drama, and the error is unforgivable.
We first see Waris in a London Top Shop, contemplating a little shoplifting. She's dead broke, sleeps on the streets and isn't averse to rummaging through rubbish bins for food.
Shop assistant Marylin (Sally Hawkins, as annoyingly chirpy as ever) warns her of the perils of pilfering which, to non-English speaking Waris, is the first positive thing to happen to her in the six years she's lived in London.
She follows Marylin to her cheap accommodation and basically foists herself upon her. Marylin gets her a job in a burger bar, buys English text books, and the girls bond.
It is while sweeping floors and cleaning slop at the burger joint that she's spotted by fashion photographer Terry Donaldson (Timothy Spall). In real life, Waris was discovered by Terence Donovan in a McDonalds, but for some reason the names have been changed here, don't ask me why.
Still, the fact remains that Donovan/Donaldson saw something in the bone structure of the under-nourished cleaning lady that convinced him to give her his card. She's all for binning it straight away but, thankfully,
Marylin knows her fashion and persuades her, several months later, to pop round and see him. She's soon on her way.
While this is going on we learn, through remembered flashbacks, of Waris' childhood (with some spectacular shots of African scenery) and the wickedness of Female Genital
Mutilation (FGM), which occurs when the clitoris is cut off with a razor blade and both inner and outer lips of the vulva are similarly dispatched.[ watch Desert Flower online free ]
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