the romance between lily collins and alden ehrenreich, it is overshadowed by his ego in his own film,down! letters from baghdad. we've all heard about lawrence of arabia but not many people have heard of gertrude bell, who was the queen of the desert? yes, maybe we have heard of lawrence of arabia because of that epic tribute. gertrude bell never really had hers, and this documentary is as epic as it gets. there is another film with nicole kidman, but this is the more fitting tribute through this letters that she left through her correspondence from the desert. she was the most powerful women in the british empire. at the end of world war i, the borders of arabia were being drawn. she was very much involved with winston churchill, riding into the desert, a redoubtable british colonial figure, intrepid explorer, part spy, part stateswoman, part antiquarian. a woman awoman in a woman in a man's world. in the arab world, she learned farsi, she understood everything. magnificently played by tilda swinton, as you would expect. what is well done in the documentary, directed by two women, th