{"id":2815,"date":"2011-01-17T11:42:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T11:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2011-07-20T09:55:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T09:55:40","slug":"desert-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/?p=2815","title":{"rendered":"DESERT FLOWER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DESERT FLOWER- 2009. Premise by Netflix. &#8220;Sherry Horman directs this drama based on the real-life story of Waris Dirie (Liya Kebede), a poor girl who flees an arranged marriage in Somalia, winds up in London and becomes one of the world&#8217;s most recognizable supermodels. As her star rises, Dirie speaks out against the practice of female genital mutilation, a trauma she experienced as a girl. Timothy Spall co-stars as the photographer who &#8220;discovered&#8221; Dirie working in a fast food joint.&#8221; <strong>Winner at Palm Springs Film Festival, 2011. Good review in NY Times on 3\/18\/11.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7\/20\/11- <strong>One reviewer said that this movie would have been better as a documentary and I agree. I feel that the screenplay was overly simplistic and\u00a0even silly\u00a0at times and the change in tone of the movie with the last\u00a0scene did not sit right with me but I\u00a0lasted the entire movie\u00a0because I knew it was basically a\u00a0true story. Recommended with some reservation. TRDB. <\/strong>Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DESERT FLOWER- 2009. Premise by Netflix. &#8220;Sherry Horman directs this drama based on the real-life story of Waris Dirie (Liya Kebede), a poor girl who flees an arranged marriage in Somalia, winds up in London and becomes one of the world&#8217;s most recognizable supermodels. As her star rises, Dirie speaks out against the practice of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,68,49],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-reviews","category-drama-movies-by-genre","category-seen-on-netflix","tag-docudrama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}