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Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
Directed by
Miguel Gomes
Not Rated
2015
2h 5m
Drama
6.9
97%
74%
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Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.
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Cast of Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
Crista Alfaiate
Xerazade / Maria Punk
Miguel Gomes
Realizador
Carloto Cotta
Tradutor
Adriano Luz
Sindicalista / Luís
Rogério Samora
Primeiro-Ministro
Maria Rueff
Ministra das Finanças
Diogo Dória
Homem da Comissão Europeia
Bruno Bravo
Homem do Banco Central Europeu
Luísa Cruz
Dona do Bordel
Américo Silva
Homem do FMI
Dinarte Branco
Homem do Patronato
Cristina Carvalhal
Médica / Sereia
Tiago Fagulha
Chico Chapas
Louison Tresallet
Child
Basirou Diallo
Feiticeiro
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One Ratings & Reviews
RogerEbert.com
Scout Tafoya
Each of these stories slowly unfurls its metaphoric underpinning and meaning in modern Portuguese politics just in time for the next fable to begin.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The subtitle tells the truth; here is a wonderfully restless movie.
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
Taken on its own, it often feels aimless and scattershot, but when viewed as part of a larger whole, it's spectacular - a wholly unique work of artistic activism.
Paste Magazine
Alissa Wilkinson
The film is a six-and-a-half-hour remix of the magical and the real, in service of the political. It isn't coherent, and it isn't always good, but it can be fascinating.
Chicago Reader
Bill Stamets
The films are enchanting for their irony, their humanity, and their reflexiveness.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
There is a fine line between delving into the mysteries of life and engaging in mystification, and Mr. Gomes lands on the wrong side of it.
Village Voice
Calum Marsh
The stories have an almost dreamlike sweep and imaginative energy, and the film never exhausts that exuberance.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
With a blend of local lore and partisan fury, theatrical artifice and journalistic inquiry, Gomes single-handedly reinvents the political cinema.
Floating World
Dustin Chang
Political films are often boring. Well intentioned films are even more boring. But since it's Miguel Gomes, the director of such genre defining, inventive, playful films as Our Beloved Month of August and Tabu, Arabian Nights is nothing but.
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Kathy Fennessy
The trilogy plays like a cry of frustration from a filmmaker who loves the people at the bottom and loathes the people at the top.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
This sprawling, messy epic trips the light fantastic across the screen and right off of it, forming a kind of dream history.
Movie Mezzanine
Amir Soltani
Gomes's wildest, most auspicious and gloriously messy film to date borrows the structure of the eponymous Middle Eastern collection of folkloric tales, but appropriated to modern Portugal under the government's extreme austerity measures.
The Film Stage
Giovanni Marchini Camia
Fascinating even in its misfires, this [is a] sprawling and fantastical document of the country's plight in the wake of the global financial crisis.
In These Times
Michael Atkinson
Its interconnecting tendrils do not reach out to you in an obvious way; repeat viewings, as one film interrupted by time, like Scheherazade's stories, may be necessary. The thing's sense of life energy, however, is unmistakable.
The Playlist
Oliver Lyttelton
It's dizzying stuff, and virtually everything that Gomes tries his hand to works: it's a film that's moving, sad, exciting, fiery, and funny
Brooklyn Magazine
Nicolas Rapold
a restless work of cultural reframing and repositioning that risks one giant bellyflop
Collider
Brian Formo
For the patient, 'Arabian Nights' is a marvel. It pushes filmmaking into a new realm of the senses, to a place where it is okay to become sleepy. You know a new jolt will come.
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