Completed - PORTUGUESE - Drama, Fantasy, Black comedy - 120 minutes
Year of production : 2015 Director(s) : Miguel GOMES Writer(s) : Miguel GOMES, Mariana RICARDO, Telmo CHURRO Cast : Crista ALFAIATE, Dinarte BRANCO, Carloto COTTA Producer(s) : Luis urbano DE SOUSA (O SOM E A FURIA), Thomas ORDONNEAU (SHELLAC), Janine JACKOWSKI (KOMPLIZEN FILM GMBH), Elena TATTI (BOX PRODUCTIONS)
In Portugal - one European country in crisis - a film director proposes to build fictional stories from the miserable reality he is immersed in. However, failing to find meaning in his work, he cowardly runs away and leaves the beautiful Scheherazade to stand in his shoes. She will require enthusiasm and courage so as not to bore the King with sad stories of this country! As nights go past, restlessness leads to desolation and in turn to enchantment. Therefore Scheherazade organises the stories she tells the King in three volumes. She begins like this: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in a sad country among all countries...”.Volume 2, The Desolate OneIn 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. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad! The residents of a tower block in the suburbs will save parrots and piss inside lifts while surrounded by dead people and ghosts; including in fact a dog that…”. And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent. - “Damned tales! If things continue this way my daughter will surely end up with her throat slit!” – the Grand-Vizier, Scheherazade’s father, thinks in his palace in Bagdad.
Country(ies) : PORTUGAL, FRANCE, GERMANY, SWITZERLAND
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Festival de Cannes 2015 (La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs)Palm Springs International Film Festival 2016Solothurner Filmtage 2016International Film Festival Rotterdam 2016Goteborg IFF 2016Portland International Film Festival 2016Festival internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2016Dublin International Film Festival 2016Hong Kong International Film Festival 2016Vilnius International Film Festival 2016Istanbul international film festival 2016New Horizons International Film Festival Wroclaw 2016