Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One
Drama
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2015
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In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tonnes. She therefore escapes from the palace and travels the Kingdom in search of pleasure and enchantment. Her father, the Grand-Vizier, arranges to meet her at the Ferris wheel, and Scheherazade resumes her narration: “Auspicious King, in old shanty towns of Lisbon there was a community of bewitched men who, in all rigour and passion, dedicated themselves to teaching birds to sing…”. And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent.
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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
126 min
Release date:
26 Aug 2015
Country:
DE, FR, PT, CH
Languages:
German, French, Chinese, English, Portuguese
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$6,681
Awards:
15 wins & 18 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Some of the stories are genuinely affecting. But Gomes' arcane storytelling style and frequent use of absurdity will require a good deal of patience from filmgoers.
– Bruce Demara,
Toronto Star,
8 Jan 2016
fresh:
Gomes plays with the traditions of the past and the tangible facts of the presents, hoping for a brighter future for his homeland.
– Scout Tafoya,
RogerEbert.com,
18 Dec 2015
fresh:
Arabian Nights locks ordinary struggles and scrubby Portuguese country sides into Byzantine framing devices, faithful to the credo that any story can be interesting if it's told in an interesting way.
– Ignatiy Vishnevetsky,
AV Club,
3 Dec 2015
fresh:
The stories have an almost dreamlike sweep and imaginative energy, and the film never exhausts that exuberance.
– Calum Marsh,
Village Voice,
1 Dec 2015