【Dual Screening Delight I — Director in Focus: Miguel Gomes】Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One

★ Cannes Film Festival

Volume 2, The Desolate One In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a distressed Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence on a night when all three moons are aligned. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges….” “Damned tales!” – the Grand-Vizier, Scheherazade’s father, thinks in his palace in Baghdad.

Director｜ Miguel Gomes

Cast｜Crista Alfaiate, Chico Chapas, Luísa Cruz