Grand Tour
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“Abandon yourself to the world and see how generous it is to you”
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Overview
Cowardice and tenacity go head to head in Grand Tour, a hypnotic travel experience to places real and imagined. In 1917 Burma, low-level British bureaucrat Edward (Gonçalo Waddington) glumly awaits the arrival of a ship bearing Molly (Crista Alfaiate), his longtime fiancée. Stricken with fear at the thought of actually marrying her, he flees to Singapore with the determined Molly close behind him, beginning a shambolic odyssey of avoidance that will take Edward and his loving pursuer through Saigon, Osaka and Chongqing all the way to Tibet. Winner of Best Director at Cannes, Gomes has created an extravagant globe-trotting epic to stimulate the senses.
Winner - Best Director
“Unique, elegant, eccentric...Miguel Gomes delivers a film in which the most complex sophistication coexists with innocence and charm.”
“An enchanting, enlivening, era-spanning, continent-crossing travelogue that runs the very serious risk of infecting you with the antidote: a potent dose of wanderlust-for-life.”
“Beguiling and elusive… the best you can do is plunge into it without asking too many questions”
Why You Should See This Film
Gomes has said that all of his films are, in one way or another, remakes of The Wizard of Oz. Melding time and space in this boisterous experiment, the director unpicks the complex threads of colonial-era stories and their legacy by integrating lush black and white 16 mm visions of a constructed past with vibrant images of the contemporary world. Grand Tour propels forward with a sense of eccentric playfulness and willingness to experiment with form, using everything from karaoke to marionettes as a means to explore the rich diversity of experiences that can be found if we would only take the step outside our comfort zone.
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