Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.... (Full plot summary below)
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Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.
Leave your thoughts about Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One.
| CineVueBen NicholsonThe individual tales meanings are obscured by wavering tone and formal gymnastics. |
| Village VoiceCalum MarshHowever you enjoy its nearly four hundred minutes, I expect you'll be held rapt till the last second by a film of abundant wit and generous heart. |
| The New YorkerRichard BrodyWith a blend of local lore and partisan fury, theatrical artifice and journalistic inquiry, Gomes single-handedly reinvents the political cinema. |
| Total FilmJamie GrahamOne of the princes of arthouse cinema, Miguel Gomes here uses his status to push form and stretch boundaries. Very long but very much worth it. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorLabelling his film as a response to the impoverishment of ordinary people caused by the government-imposed austerity of 2013-14, Gomes explains his dilemma brilliantly at the start of Volume 1. How is a well-meaning filmmaker to effectively render the pain of the Portuguese with a documentary set in a town where the shipyard has closed just as alien wasps are attacking local beehives? |
| RogerEbert.comScout TafoyaPart one of "Arabian Nights" has many wild components and even though they adhere to their own set of aesthetic principals, they make for a strange two-hour movie (which is why it’s best to watch it with parts two and three). |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenMiguel Gomes's formal talents, which include a flair for close-ups of elegantly smooth or weathered faces, transcend his soft spot for the didactic. |
| The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyFighting misery means having fun, which is what filmmaking is supposed to be, and, despite its lengths and scope, Arabian Nights always feels handmade. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottMr. Gomes has a tendency to revel in his own cleverness and to indulge in self-conscious cinematic jokes. He also has a penchant for obscurantism, a habit of confusing ambiguity with depth. |
