Arabian Nights: Volume 2 – The Desolate One
(As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 2, O Desolado)
Directed by Miguel Gomes.
With Crista Alfaiate, João Pedro Bénard, Isabel Muñoz Cardoso.
Portugal/France/Germany/Switzerland, 2015, DCP, color, 131 min.
Portuguese, English, French, German & Mandarin with English subtitles.
DCP source: Kino Lorber
With Crista Alfaiate, João Pedro Bénard, Isabel Muñoz Cardoso.
Portugal/France/Germany/Switzerland, 2015, DCP, color, 131 min.
Portuguese, English, French, German & Mandarin with English subtitles.
DCP source: Kino Lorber
A dark whimsy weaves through the second and most spirited volume of Gomes’ trilogy, which opens with a rollicking and morally disorienting adventure: the escape of a serial killer who gradually becomes a folk hero by eluding the police. The subsequent stories tell of an absurd and seemingly unending trial over crimes that fantastically multiply and the ragged misadventures of a Maltese poodle whose lonely search for new owners in a bedraggled apartment complex gently recalls Umberto D’s neorealist canine.
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