Director: Miguel Gomes
Country: Portugal
Award: none
Movement: none
Scheherazade (Crista Alfaiate) continues to tell stories in order to stay alive in the third and final film of Miguel Gomes' epic about the lives of ordinary people in contemporary, austerity-stricken Portugal. Among the tales: The Grand Vizier fears for Scheherazade's life, bird trappers train their pets for a singing competition, and a Chinese girl travels to Portugal. Volume 3- The Enchanted One In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tons. She therefore escapes from the palace and travels the kingdomin search of pleasure and enchantment. Her father, the Grand-Vizier, arranges to meet her at the Ferris wheel and Scheherazade resumes her narration: “O auspicious King, in old shanty towns of Lisbon there was a community of bewitched men who, with all dedication and passion, devoted themselves to teaching birds to sing...” And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent.
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