Arabian Nights: Volume 3 - The Enchanted One
As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 3, O Encantado, feature film, drama, Portugal, 2015
DIRECTED BY: Miguel Gomes
CAST:
Crista Alfaiate,
Américo Silva,
Amar Bounachada,
Lionel Franc,
Elvis Barrientos
SCRIPT:
Telmo Churro,
Miguel Gomes,
Mariana Ricard
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
Synopsis:
Scheherazade is lonely, separated from people of whom she tells stories and she is starting to lack inspiration. In secrecy she meets with her father. Scheherazade’s last story takes her to the workers’ neighborhood in Lisbon. People who live there have birds who have stopped singing a nicely as they did before and they educate them further. The carnival ends and shows us reality that is more surreal from everything we have seen so far…
This trilogy is inspired with a series of events in Portugal between August 2013 and July 2014, the period of implementation of imposed austerity measures that turned reality in the insufferable nightmare.
color, digital, 125 min