Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

2015 · 132 min · PT · 7.0 (44 votes)
Dir. Miguel Gomes · Starring Crista Alfaiate, Chico Chapas, Luísa Cruz, Pedro Caldas, Gonçalo Waddington, Margarida Carpinteiro · Arabian Nights Collection
Drama

Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights of her ordeal: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. 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!

VIBE

A haunting, dreamlike tapestry of sorrow and the absurd. It feels like wandering through a melancholic, surreal landscape where everyday life bleeds into the spectral, leaving you with a profound sense of desolation.

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