GRAND TOUR
Special Features: Special Presentation | 2025 Oscar® Selection, Portugal | Post-screening reception sponsored by the Embassy of Portugal on Dec. 11
1918. Mandalay. After a long engagement, lowly British diplomat Edward (Gonçalo Waddington) is finally set to be reunited with his betrothed, Molly (Crista Alfaiate). But instead of meeting her at the dock, he gets cold feet and hops on a boat to Singapore, setting off a cat and mouse game across Colonial-era Asia. Mostly drunk and occasionally mistaken for a spy, Edward finds himself in Thailand, Japan and China, with Molly never far behind. Their journey is juxtaposed with mesmerizing modern footage from those same locales, a potent post-colonial rumination filled with puppet theater, karaoke and a hand-cranked carnival. Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes (THE TSUGUA DIARIES, AFI FEST 2021) won the Best Director award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for this spellbinding travelogue, where time, place, language and culture collide into an intoxicating masterwork. –Josh Gardner
Official Selection, AFI FEST, Toronto and New York film festivals. DIR/SCR Miguel Gomes; SCR Telmo Churro, Maureen Fazendeiro, Mariana Ricardo; PROD Filipa Reis. Portugal/Italy/France/Germany/Japan/China, 2024, color and b&w, 129 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Run Time: 129 Minutes
Opening Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Genre: Drama
