Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One (As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 2, O Desolado)

2015

Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One (As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 2, O Desolado)

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In Portugal - one European country in crisis - a film director proposes to build fictional stories from the miserable reality he is immersed in. However, failing to find meaning in his work, he cowardly runs away and leaves the beautiful Scheherazade to stand in his shoes. She will require enthusiasm and courage so as not to bore the King with sad stories of this country! As nights go past, restlessness leads to desolation and in turn to enchantment. Therefore Scheherazade organises the stories she tells the King in three volumes. She begins like this: "It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in a sad country among all countries...". Volume 2, The Desolate One In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men: "It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a distressed Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence on a night when all three moons are aligned. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad! The residents of a tower block in the suburbs will save parrots and piss inside lifts while surrounded by dead people and ghosts; including in fact a dog that...". And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent. - "Damned tales! If things continue this way my daughter will surely end up with her throat slit!" - the Grand-Vizier, Scheherazade's father, thinks in his palace in Bagdad.

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Cast

Crista Alfaiate
as Génio/Punk Maria
Chico Chapas
as Simao 'Without Bowels'
Luisa Cruz
as Juíza
Gonçalo Waddington
as Filho Idiota/Vasco
Joana de Verona
as Vânia/Filha da Juíza
Teresa Madruga
as Luísa
Margarida Carpinteiro
as Mãe/Glória
João Pedro Bénard
as Humberto
João Pedro Bénard
as Humberto
Carloto Cotta
as Careto
Pedro Inês
as Advogado
Jing Jing Guo
as Speaker For The Twelve Chinese Ladies
Adriano Luz
as Luís
Americo Silva
as Grand Vizier
Rogério Samora
as Prime Minister
Fernanda Loureiro
as Feranda
Bernardo Alves
as Alves
Basirou Diallo
as Wizard
Sabrina Lopes
as Sandra
Carlos Loureiro
as Rui Miguel
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  • Nov 13, 2016
    It is a curious thing to notice how this second chapter of Miguel Gomes' Arabian Nights trilogy is a lot more conventional than the first in terms of structure, but even so it is a wonderful film that achieves a level of sublime perfection in its chronicle about the tears of the judge.
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