Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers in acts of barbarism. During combat, Augustin and Jean-Michel are separated from their regiment, and they start wandering through the desert fighting for their life. In one of the canyons Augustin meets a leopard he names Simoom and a strange bond between them appears.
Passion in the Desert has generally received positive reviews.
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Passion in the Desert was released in 1997 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 21 reviews, giving Passion in the Desert (1997) an average rating of 61%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 82%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 55%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Passion in the Desert than critics were.
With a score of 61%, Passion in the Desert is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1997, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 1997 with similar scores include films like Event Horizon, Tomorrow Never Dies and The Saint.
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