Quote Originally Posted by AAReagles View Post
You're right about regions, our medal for the Persian Gulf War was labeled Southwest Asian Campaign. Yet when there is nothing but rock and sand, it's all the same to me.
Now to be honest the setting is less important ( I can also add The flight of the Phoenix by Robert Aldrich, The English patient, Out of Africa ) as long as the story and characters are typical European or american.
I liked Timbuktu because it's related to the local culture and traditions. Actually there's not a certain plot and not main characters, it's more about everyday life of these people and the problems they have to face.
In the same league I think of Le source des femmes by french director Radu Mihaileanu ( french???? In fact he's a Jewish romanian) a rather poetic movie about woman's condition in that part of the world.