
Continuation of the Arabian Nights stories by the structure were adapted to modern life in Portugal in three innings and the third chapter "The Owners of Dixie" has three chapters.... (Full plot summary below)
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Continuation of the Arabian Nights stories by the structure were adapted to modern life in Portugal in three innings and the third chapter "The Owners of Dixie" has three chapters.
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| The PlaylistOliver LytteltonFor all the film’s politics, Arabian Nights can also be whimsical, swooningly romantic, inspiring, fascinating, or deeply sad. |
| CineVueBen NicholsonArabian Nights may frustrate and enervate, but with hindsight these blemishes fade into a gleaming collage. |
| Village VoiceCalum MarshThe stories have an almost dreamlike sweep and imaginative energy, and the film never exhausts that exuberance. More extraordinary still is its emotional depth. |
| RogerEbert.comScout TafoyaThe melancholy that falls over this chapter is hard to shake but its tempered slightly by the love Gomes has for his characters, bad habits, ingrained sadness and all. |
| Total FilmJamie GrahamVolumes one and two are especially captivating, as Gomes himself appears onscreen to tell of how he charged a team of researchers with scouring Portugal in search of tales. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorGomes believes we should all take responsibility for one another and sees austerity as a government abrogation of social duty that ultimately turns citizen against citizen. |
| The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyArabian Nights’ off-the-cuff, community-theater vibe ends up underlining its origins as a creative reaction to social and economic crisis. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottIt is worth sticking with it until the end, since the third part is the most powerful. |
| Slant MagazineClayton DillardIt forays into satirical terrain in order to elide actual dealings with the problems at hand, so that each piece feels alternatively frivolous and weighty. |