Arabian Nights Volume 3: The Enchanted One

2015
Portugal
2h 5min

Directed by: Miguel Gomes
Cast: Crista Alfaiate, Américo Silva, Amar Bounachada
Language: Portuguese
UK release: 6 May 2016

Scheherazade (Alfaiate) moves to centre stage in the concluding part of Gomes' sprawling, wildly inventive trilogy. An inability to bring the story to a proper end makes this the most trying episode, but as a whole, the trilogy is a giddy, shape-shifting, unapologetically eccentric delight marbled with moments of beauty and heartache.

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Arabian Nights

18 Apr 2016

Giddy, shape-shifting and eccentric three-parter from Portuguese director Miguel Gomes

How does any European filmmaker confront the age of austerity? In righteous fury, bitter despair, or weary melancholy? Tabu director Miguel Gomes tries to address the impact on Portugal with a little of everything in his sprawling, wildly inventive…

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