“The 1001 Nights” by Miguel Gomes with marked debut for Cannes – iOnline

The three parts of the film will be shown on three consecutive days in the Fortnight of Directors

“The 1001 Nights”, the latest film by Miguel Gomes, was selected to be shown in the Directors’ Fortnight, a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival which runs from 14 to 24 May.

The three volumes of the film – “The Restless,” “The Desolate” and “The Enchanted” – each with two hours long, will be shown on three consecutive days, in two daily sessions.

On the website of the Directors’ Fortnight, Edouard Waintrop, creative director of the section, speaks in a “superb series, inspired by the stories told by Scheherazade and events in Portugal in 2013 and 2014 – a country then subjected to a policy that denied all social justice “that” will set the tone for programming. ”

According to “Variety”, the Cannes selection committee offered the director a place in the section Un Certain Regard, which Miguel Gomes declined to be able to stand before the fortnight of Directors, which will have to Arnaud Desplechin company that also in Cannes premiere his film “Trois Souvenirs Ma Jeunesse”, and Philippe Garrel, with “L’Ombre des Femmes”.

The director of the film that won international recognition with “Taboo” (2012) should reach the rooms in September, confirmed the “Public” producer The Sound and the Fury, also in three parts.