Grand Tour · Portugal (2024)
Miguel Gomes follows a British officer across Asia in a visual journey about love and escape.
Edward is supposed to get married in colonial Burma, but the moment he hears his fiancée Molly is finally arriving, he panics and jumps on the first boat out of town.
What follows is not really an escape plan, more like a slow, dazed wander through one country after another: Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan.
Molly, unbothered and strangely amused by the whole thing, decides to go find him anyway.
The film looks like nothing else out there. Most of it is shot in the studio, in black and white, like an old movie, and then, out of nowhere, it cuts to colour footage of those same cities today, motorbikes, markets, ordinary life.
Past and present start blending together until you are not quite sure which one you are watching, and somehow that makes the story feel more true, not less.
It picked up the Best Director award at Cannes, and it is easy to see why.
It is romantic without being sappy, funny without trying too hard, and it leaves you with that pleasant, slightly dizzy feeling you get after a really good trip.
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