Director: Miguel Gomes
Cast: Goncalo Waddington, Tailor Crest, Claudio da Silva, Lang Khe Tran, Jorge Andrade, João Pedro Vaz, João Pedro Benard, Teresa Madruga, Joana Barcia
Classification: (m)
★★ungs+
Revised by Amasio Jutel
Miguel Gomes’ Grand tour (Rialto) It starts in Rangoon, 1918, where Edward is waiting for his bride, Molly. The two should marry in the Burmese capital, which is under British colonial occupation. Things immediately sour and, following a complicated conversation with a relative of Molly, Edward runs away impulsively to Singapore, moving a hop excursion through East Asia – an ephemeral odyssey told in two parts.
Every hour of the travel diary concerns one or the other of the couple – first with Edward, sad and scared, running away from the commitment; According to Molly, the bride determined by tracking her steps.
The simple narrative content of the movie is far from its strongest element. Gomes innovates in the form of a film in countless ways, intertwining fiction and documentary, language and temporalities, device and reality.
The cultural richness of East Asia becomes the tapestry against which the white middle-class Britons (although speaks Portuguese from the director of Gomes) stages their trivial social quarrels-a parable analoging the colonial imagination that weighs in the early twentieth century scenario.
The elegant 16 mm movie is based on documentary scenes from the Director-ATUAL trips and not fiction-enriching the tropical stages in which fiction unfolds.
VoiceOver directs abstract history, told in the local dialect of the country that our protagonists currently occupy, as if its history were folkloric.
