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These hostile areas but a sovereign beauty serve as a backdrop for productions big show like the more contemplative films. Marvel heroes of the big screen in front of you do their time in the wilderness!
1 Lawrence of Arabia (Jordan / Morocco / Spain)
David Lean, 1962 Britain
Long before the era of special effects, David Lean managed the feat of filming a war epic with thousands of extras while revealing the inner turmoil experienced by his hero. The latter, played by Peter O'Toole in a hypnotic gaze, resurrects the eccentric and tortured character of TE Lawrence, the British officer who helped the Arabs to revolt against the Turkish occupier during World War II. September Oscars were awarded to this masterpiece adventure film, enhanced by the music of Maurice Jarre and a scenario of high class.
In this film, David Lean wanted the camera movement go from left to right to accentuate the feeling of a journey. Full effect. The film has several scenes anthology of the match that ignites to turn into sunrise to attack the Bedouins before Fort of Aqaba. You walk through the beautiful scenery of sandy deserts. If Jordan appears to El Jafr at Jebel Tubeik and Maan, Ouarzazate in Morocco and southern Spain have provided many decors. Thus in the Tabernas Desert, near Almeria, Omar Shariff arises sands like a mirage.
2 Zabriskie Point (California)
Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970, Italy / USA
The American road movie of an Italian director who came out of the success of Blow-up, is a final apocalyptic and carried by the psychedelic pop of the post-Woodstock scenic shots. It features two students, hero against-culture whose rebellious rage here acquires an epic dimension. The federal government dispatched FBI agents to the scene of the shooting, as the pacifist scenario (it was the Vietnam War) smelled sulfur. The film, in its release, was a commercial flop, but he lifted taboos that should pave the way to new Hollywood filmmakers.
Antonioni filmed in California, in the Mojave Desert and Death Valley. Zabriskie Point, which sees the two heroes from Madness in hugs, occupies the top of a hill from where one overlooks the eastern the valley. The place is gorgeous, wrinkled hills and ravines, in an ocher palette of reds and pinks.
3 Fort Saganne (Mauritania)
Alain Corneau, 1984 France
Blockbuster that mixes romance in colonial adventure, the film adapted from a novel by Louis Gardel, recounts the exploits of a French officer, son of peasants ariégeois, went to fight Tuareg warriors in Western Sahara before the 1914 war Back in France, despite the honors and his relationship with a novelist, this officer did not resist the call of the desert. The director had the art, and this movie, played by a pleiad stars, Sophie Marceau Gerard Depardieu through Catherine Deneuve, has become a classic.
The Mauritania has provided most of the outdoor settings of this historical epic. If security conditions are reunited one day to travel in this country, we can navigate the fort built for the needs of the film in the pass Amogjar, on the road from Adrar to the holy city of Chinguetti. This city besieged by sand contains a colonial fort which hosted the film crew and it must have been restored to its original state. The surrounding desert is as sumptuous as impractical. In the 1990s, the number of competitors in the Paris-Dakar came shipwreck in this sea of dunes.
4 Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Australia)
Stephan Elliott, 1994, Australia.
With this cult Australian movie, the road movie is adorned with rhinestones and ostrich feathers. Two transvestites and transsexuals from Sydney are heading to Alice Springs, lost in the outback town, determined to put a cabaret. They drive on an old bus named "Priscilla". If the Aborigines, another minority abused the country are welcoming drag queens, farmers bush are more reluctant ... The film avoids caricature, Terence Stamp, actor British class, ex-dandy sixties, excels in the transgender and Abba reign on the soundtrack. In the end, a good old romantic comedy repainted in the colors of the rainbow flag rainbow.
One of the main hero of the film is the Australian outback, which sees passing like a comet, the silver scarf Felicia perched on the bus. Party of Sydney , it sinks into the depths of the outback of New South Wales, from which emerges the old mining town of Broken Hill, now popular with writers and artists. Mario's Palace Hotel, the old and frescoed where the characters stop pub is still standing. The bus then continues the road to the Northern Territory. Other backdrops of the film: another mining town, Coober Pedy, known for its underground dwellings; the town of Alice Springs; and Watarrka National Park, home to the spectacular Kings Canyon vertiginous cliffs.
5 The captive desert (Niger)
Raymond Depardon, 1989 France
In the African Sahel, a woman is taken hostage by rebels, but all seem to live prisoners of the arid vastness around them. This minimalist scenario, the photographer and documentary Raymond Depardon wrote, inspired by his own work of photo-journalist. In the late 1970s he had met in northern Chad, while the insurgents Toubou, a real hostage, the anthropologist Françoise Claustre. It remained nearly three years captive soldiers Habré. The actress Sandrine Bonnaire plays that character on the screen without duplicating its true history.
This film is a UFO in the French cinema. Depardon shows himself not contemplative but attentive to detail reflecting the presence of the desert. To recreate the atmosphere of Tibesti, he went into the Ténéré, the "desert of deserts," northwest of Niger. The camera of filmmaker explores the nuances of this environment, amid the rocks embedded in the sand. This desert there, haunting, enigmatic, is shown so intimate, whether Oasis Chirfa on set Djado, the massif of Orida or fortress Djaba. Dreaming of deserts? This is palpable, invasive, and you will also you captive.
6 The Man Who Would Be King (Morocco, USA)
John Huston, 1975 UK / U.S.
At the end of XIX century, two adventurers will carve a kingdom junk the borders of Afghanistan . The hoax turns tragic when the puppet ruler begins to take his role seriously. In this epic tale, John Huston was inspired by the novels of Rudyard Kipling, to the point of including the champion of British colonial adventure in the story. It seems that shooting, acrobatic always with this devil of Huston, was able to rejoice because the actors Sean Connery and Michael Caine keep a lasting memory.
If Kafiristan, where the story is supposed to take place, is located in northern Afghanistan, the film was shot in the spectacular scenery of Glen Canyon on the border of Utah and Arizona, as well as in the mountains of the Moroccan Atlas and Ouarzazate. One set pieces of the film takes place in the big climb of Mont Blanc above Chamonix.
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