Portugal, Italy, France
129′, 2024.
DIRECTED BY
Miguel Gomes
STARRING
Gonçalo Waddington, Crista Alfaiate, Cláudio da Silva, Lang Khê Tran
PRODUCED BY
Uma Pedra no Sapato, Vivo Film, Shellac Sud, Cinéma Defacto
SCRIPTWRITER
Telmo Churro, Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Gui Liang, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Rui Poças
EDITED BY
Telmo Churro, Pedro Filipe Marques
Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée, Molly, the day she arrives to get married. During his travels, however, panic gives way to melancholy. Yet Molly, determined to marry and amused by his move, follows his trail on this Asian grand tour.
Miguel Gomes started his career as film critic. From 1999, he directed a series of short films, followed by his first feature film in 2004, La Gueule que tu mérites. His fame grew internationally in 2012 with his film Taboo, which won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. Two years later, his ambitious trilogy of The Arabian Nights borrowed the structure and form of the tale and transposed it with acerbic irony to Portugal between July 2013 and August 2014, when the country was ravaged by austerity policies. Drawing on popular imaginaries, his works are marked by the blurring of documentary and fiction that defines his style as a whole. Retrospectives of Gomes’ work took place in Austria, Italy, Spain, Germany, Greece, USA. He received a Career Award at Laceno d’Oro Film Festival (Italy, 2016). For his film Grand Tour, he won the Best Director Award at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Miguel graduated in Film from the Lisbon Film and Theatre School and worked as a film critic. He lives in Lisbon.
