Director: Miguel Gomes
Country: Portugal
Award: none
Movement: none
A murderer on the run from authorities becomes a folk hero in the second installment of this surreal epic about the lives of ordinary people in austerity-stricken, contemporary Portugal. Elsewhere, a trial involving stolen cows turns farcical and a dog is passed from owner to owner in an apartment complex. Directed by Miguel Gomes. Volume 2- The Desolate One In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a distressed judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence on a night when all three moons are aligned. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will tele transport himself to escape the Police while dreamingof prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce abouta thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad! The residents of a tower block in the suburbs will save parrots and piss inside lifts while surrounded by dead people and ghosts; including in fact a dog that...” And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent. – “Damned tales! If things continue this way my daughter will surely end up with her throat slit!” – the Grand-Vizier, Scheherazade’s father, thinks in his palace in Bagdad.
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