ARABIAN NIGHTS : VOLUME 1, THE RESTLESS ONE
Miguel Gomes

O.V. Portuguese

?With his Arabian Nights trilogy, Miguel Gomes takes inspiration from the framing of the original saga to present a sweeping epic of tragic, farcical and surreal stories set in modern-day Portugal. In the fragmented and often violent tales of Sheherazade, the filmmaker saw an in for discussing the current economic crisis. The first, labour-themed volume — featuring technocrats with permanent erections, a talking rooster dragged into court and a union activist hospitalized inside a whale — is...