Passion in the Desert Movie Review

Get this: French soldier, circa Napoleonic era, gets lost in the Egyptian desert, befriends (or falls in love with) a leopard, and goes primal. Less bizarre and less interesting than it sounds, Passion in the Desert (aka Simoom: A Passion in the Desert) is nonetheless a fairly compelling film thanks to Ben Daniels wild-eyed performance. Based on a novella by Balzac, which pretty much explains the whole thing.