21/10 – 19 h. The Independent Cinema Alternative_festival: Grand Tour
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One of the two projections of the last editions of the L’Alternativa Festival to warm up engines before the 32nd edition of one of the most special film festivals in the city.
Rangun, Burma, 1918. Edward, an official of the British Empire, flees from his fiancé Molly on the day he arrives to marry. During his journey, however, panic gives way to melancholy. Determined to marry and fun for Edward’s play, Molly follows the track through Asia.
Miguel Gomes It combines the artisan richness of cinema with a dual narrative through an ingenious game between period recreations in the study and contemporary documentary sequences that works as a mirror in the history of cinema. A hypnotic ballet of images that range from documentary reality and fiction, as a reflection on how cinema can reveal the invisible layers that connect the past and the present.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I68Q4DDPMJY
Grand Tour
Director: Miguel Gomes
Country: Portugal, Italy, France
Year: 2024
Duration: 129 min
Language: Portuguese, Chinese, Thai
Subtitles: Catalan
Image: b/n, color
Miguel Gomes (Lisbon, 1972) Diploma at the Lisbon School of Teatro and Cinema. After making several short films he directed his first feature film, in the face that deserves (2004), followed by that Querido Mês de August (2008), selected in the fifteenth cinemas of the Cannes Festival, Tabu (2012) winner of the Alfred-Bauer Award and the FiPresci Prize in the Berlinale, as a thousand e uma noites (2015) and Otsoga Diosoga (2021), co -directed with Maureen Fazendeiro and presented to the fortnight of filmmakers. Miguel Gomes’ work in Austria, Italy, Germany and the United States have been held. With Grand Tour he has received the Best Director Award at the 2024 Cannes Festival.
