Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

Part two of Miguel Gomes’ epic inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, 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.

FILMFEST MÜNCHEN is also screening ARABIAN NIGHTS: VOLUME 1, THE RESTLESS ONE and ARABIAN NIGHTS: VOLUME 3, THE ENCHANTED ONE