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2024

Grand Tour

An intoxicating, at times hallucinatory journey into the past, Grand Tour blends fiction and documentary, past and present. It is 1917. Colonial officer Edward impulsively flees his station in Rangoon, with fiancé Molly in hot pursuit. What follows is a globetrotting adventure across Asia, by turns whimsical, melancholic, and playful.

Director

Miguel Gomes

Runtime

129 Minutes

Country

Portugal, Italy, France

Classification

M

A sweeping journey across Asia, blending fiction and documentary, past and present, from masterful director Miguel Gomes.

Masterful director Miguel Gomes Gomes (Tabu, Arabian Nights) returns with a sweeping journey across Asia. On the eve of his wedding in 1917, colonial officer Edward impulsively flees his station in Rangoon, with his fiancé Molly in hot pursuit. What follows is a kaleidoscopic series of strange encounters, as the film blends fiction and documentary, past and present, and colour and stately monochrome. By turns whimsical, melancholic, and playfully exploratory, Gomes presents us with multiple perspectives, ruminating on the folly of the colonial project, while pushing the boundaries of cinematic storytelling in this strikingly original film which won the Best Director prize at Cannes this year.

“Bristling with life and song and revelatory collisions between cultures and timeframes, the Portuguese master's Cannes Competition title is a healing balm for trying times.”

Variety

“Another seductive ode to cinema by this most cinephilic of filmmakers.”

Sight & Sound

Best Director – Cannes, Sydney, Melbourne
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Film Credits

Director

Miguel Gomes

Year

2024

Country

PortugalItaly & France

Language

PortugueseChineseThaiFrenchBurmeseVietnameseFilipino & Japanese

Subtitles

English

Type

Feature & Fiction

Program Strand

World Cinema

Producer

Filipa Reis

Writer

Telmo ChurroMaureen FazendeiroMiguel Gomes & Mariana Ricardo

Cinematographer

Guo LiangSayombhu Mukdeeprom & Rui Poças AIP ABC

Editor

Telmo Churro & Pedro Filipe Marques

Cast

Gonçalo WaddingtonCrista Alfaiate & Cláudio da Silva

Film Source

Potential Films

Genre

CinephileDrama & History

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Sunday 27 Oct 2024

05:00 pm

Grand Tour

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The Piccadilly: Cinema 2

Sunday 3 Nov 2024

03:30 pm

Grand Tour

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