Arabian Nights: Volume 1 - The Restless One
- Miguel Gomes
- 2015
- 2h 5m
- Switzerland, Germany, France, Portugal
Unparalleled sample of modern political cinema where imagination meets documentation and unconventionality meets bucolic imagery. In the first of three parts of his Portuguese saga, Gomes joins the consequences of the crisis with illegal roosters by studying the concern risen over his country.
Synopsis
In Portugal, a European country in crisis, a director intends to forge fictional stories from the sad reality in which he is immersed. Finding it difficult, however, to find meaning in his work, he quits everything and leaves the beautiful Scheherazade in his place. So Scheherazade arranges the stories she will have to tell the king in three sections. In the first one, she talks about the unease that seizes the country.
Palm Dog
Cannes Film Festival
2015
Best Film
Seville European Film Festival
2015
Sydney Film Prize
Sydney Film Festival
2015
