Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One
- Miguel Gomes
- 2015
- 2h 11m
- Switzerland, Germany, France, Portugal
An unparalleled sample of modern political cinema where imagination meets documentation and unconventionality meets bucolic imagery. Melancholy dominates Miguel Gomes' second part of Portuguese epic which was preferred as the country's representative for the Oscars of that year.
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 second one, Scheherazade describes the despair that has overwhelmed the inhabitants.
Palm Dog
Cannes Film Festival
2015
Best Film
Seville European Film Festival
2015
Best Film
Sydney Film Festival
2015
