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Letters from Baghdad
Directed by
Sabine Krayenbühl
,
Zeva Oelbaum
TV-PG
2017
1h 35m
Documentary
,
Biography
,
and more
6.9
84%
64%
6.7
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Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.
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Cast of Letters from Baghdad
Tilda Swinton
Gertrude Bell (voice) / Executive Producer
Adam Astill
Sgt. Frank Stafford
Tom Chadbon
Sir Valentine 'Domnul' Chirol
Simon Chandler
David Hogarth
Joanna David
Janet Courtney
Anthony Edridge
Sir Arnold 'A.T.' Wilson
Amed Hashimi
Suleiman Faidhi
Andrew Havill
Sir Percy Cox
Michael Higgs
General Sir Gilbert Clayton
Hayat Kamille
Mme. Jamil Zadeh
Rose Leslie
Young Gertrude Bell (voice)
Sabine Krayenbühl
Director
Zeva Oelbaum
Director / Producer
Ruedi Gerber
Executive Producer
Petr Hlinomaz
Director Of Photography
Gary Clarke
Director Of Photography
Paul Cantelon
Original Music Composer
Letters from Baghdad Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
[Tilda] Swinton's vocal performance as Bell is so vivid and absorbing.
Good Times Santa Cruz
Lisa Jensen
Calling all uppity women! If you're looking for a role model on how to defy the rules and live the life you choose, look no further than Gertrude Bell.
Saporta Report (Atlanta)
Eleanor Ringel Cater
... "Letters From Bagdad" fleshes out someone who has previously been reduced to a historical footnote.
KDHX (St. Louis)
Diane Carson
The fascinating, historical documentary Letters from Baghdad profiles Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, a remarkable woman by any standards.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Josh Terry
Letters from Baghdad manages to concentrate on its subject in a way that avoids feeling political or accusatory.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
Only the most loyal of Bell buffs need apply, everyone else would be better off sticking to her Wikipedia entry.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
It's a portrait of a complex woman that respects her achievements but ultimately adores her courage.
San Francisco Examiner
Anita Katz
While Bell deserves a more comprehensive portrait, this documentary brings her into vivid focus and captures the world she inhabited.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
The result is something that feels fresh and modern.
Los Angeles Times
Jeffrey Fleishman
In an age of a rebooted "Wonder Woman," Bell is the real thing, intrepid, fierce and smart.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
It provides a sturdy, often exhilarating bridge between the present and a past that not only isn't distant, but isn't even really past.
Variety
Jay Weissberg
A carefully researched documentary that uses an extraordinary wealth of appealing archival footage accompanied by Tilda Swinton's voiceover as Bell.
TheWrap
Tricia Olszewski
But although Bell herself is fascinating, Letters From Baghdad is less so.
RogerEbert.com
Vikram Murthi
A disorganized onslaught of primary source material that doesn't so much shed light as it does simply exist.
Spirituality & Practice
Mary Ann Brussat
An exquisite documentary on the extraordinary life and work of Gertrude Bell.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Despite such rich source material, however, Letters From Baghdad proves oddly unsatisfying.
The Young Folks
Nathanael Hood
But despite its shortcomings, Letters from Baghdad is one of the rare documentaries which is in itself an aesthetic achievement.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
Ms. Swinton's performance of Bell's letters convey Bell's skills as a writer, but the movie is ultimately too conceptually labored for its own good - or that of its subject.
Village Voice
Daphne Howland
Unfortunately, the doc is devoid of any real context, including how work such as Bell's helped lead to the quagmire that has unsettled the region for decades.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
You emerge from the film with a divided heart: thrilled to hear of a woman who, ignoring the dictates of the age, filled her days to overflowing, yet ashamed to measure your own days and to find them, by comparison, hollow and bare.
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