Grand Tour

• Miguel Gomes
• 130 min
• Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Japan, China
• 2024
• Fiction

A British bureaucrat in Southeast Asia escapes from a long-standing engagement and embarks on a winding grand tour across the continent.

The year is 1918, and after a seven-year engagement, Edward’s fiancée Molly is on her way to Rangoon to finally marry her husband-to-be. Before she arrives, Edward sneaks aboard a train bound for Singapore, but the train derails – as does so much else in Miguel Gomes’ (Arabian Nights trilogy, GFF 2016) teeming cinematic universe – and Edward and Molly soon find themselves caught in a loving yet bewildering game of cat-and-mouse with half of Asia as their playground. Past and present merge, the boundaries between fiction and essay dissolve. Gomes’ mind-expanding meditation on the inexplicable nature of our world is a unique cinematic experience.

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• Kolonialism
• Drama
• Flykt
• Resa
• Kärlek