BFF: Grand Tour

BBFC Ratingf-rated FilmBFF: Grand Tour

Showing: 03 November 2024

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Sun 3 Nov 2024

CertificateNot Rated
Year2024
GenreDrama, Romance, History
Director(s)Miguel Gomes
Writer(s)Miguel Gomes, Telmo Churrom, Maureen Fazendeiro
LanguageIn Portuguese with English subtitles
CountryPortugal, Italy, France, Germany, Japan, China
Running Time2HR 8MINS
Extra InfoPart of Belfast Film Festival
SeasonBelfast Film Festival

Miguel Gomes' latest has toured as much as its protagonists showing in Cannes, Sydney, Busan, Toronto and New York film festivals.

In such films as Tabu and his Arabian Nights trilogy, Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes has proven himself one of the great armchair-travel merchants of modern cinema. But his films don’t trade in empty, postcard-pretty spectacle, instead probing our collective, itchy yen for escape, romance, discovery and storytelling, even when it comes at a personal or political cost.

His latest time-bending wonder is his most transportive yet, following restless civil servant Edward (Gonçalo Waddington) on a woozy odyssey through Southeast Asia that begins in 1918 and is gradually released from all rules of direction and chronology — with his long-suffering fiancée Molly (Crista Alfaiate) in hot pursuit all the while.

Funny, mysterious and often rapturously beautiful, it’s a joyful ode to the verdant jungle landscapes, slow-cruising riverboats and unfamiliar urban karaoke bars where you can lose yourself and, just as often, find yourself too.

For information on the full BFF24 programme visit: www.belfastfilmfestival.org

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