Grand Tour

Synopsis

Rangoon, Burma, 1918. Edward, an official in the British Empire, flees from fiancée Molly on the day she arrives for their wedding. On his travels across Asia, however, panic soon gives way to melancholy. Moreover, determined to tie the knot and rather amused by Edward’s shenanigans, Molly sets off in hot pursuit.

Miguel Gomes combines the rich artisanal quality of film with a dual narrative by setting up a clever interplay between studio-era recreations and contemporary documentary sequences to mirror the history of cinema itself. A hypnotic ballet of images that oscillates between documentary reality and fiction and reflects ing on how film can reveal the invisible layers that connect the past and present.

Biography and Films

Miguel Gomes (Lisbon, 1972) graduated from the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. After making several short films, he directed his debut feature, A Cara Que Mereces (2004), followed by Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (2008), which was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, Tabu (2012), which won the Alfred Bauer Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlinale, As Mil e Uma Noites (2015) and Diários de Otsoga (2021), codirected with Maureen Fazendeiro and presented at the Directors’ Fortnight. Retrospectives of Miguel Gomes’s work have been held in Austria, Italy, Germany and the United States. Grand Tour won him the Best Director Award at Cannes in 2024.