The director Miguel Gomes said today he wanted, with “One Thousand and One Nights”, counteract good fiction to what it considers the “bad fiction that is the lie of politicians who pretend that all is well.”
In an interview with Lusa made hours before the national premiere of the third and final volume of the film and the next day the first exhibitions in Portugal of the first two volumes in the 23 International Festival Short Vila do Conde, Miguel Gomes said that one of the reasons that led him to creating this film was “wanting to make a film in which the fiction is very assumed and almost delirious.”
“To counter the bad fiction that is the lie of politicians who pretend that all is well. And that’s bad because fiction is the fiction that pretends real, that tries to pass for real. The good fiction can only be a fiction that takes as fiction, does not lie, “said the director of the film that includes stories such as the” Men in Pau Made “in which are portrayed the government’s negotiations with the ‘troika’, with an aphrodisiac in the middle.
The Portuguese director stressed that this “good fiction” stresses that the stories he tells are impossible, but with whom “it is possible to establish a relationship with these unbelievable things [known] not taking place in real life,” yet that says something about the society in which we live.
“It is useful at this time counteract the bad fiction is the fiction that lie is unbelievable, the stories and the power that stories have to mobilize , move us and tell us things in other ways, “he reiterated Miguel Gomes.
The filmmaker said that” above all do not [can] accept is the idea that not a crisis situation [has] right doing nothing, was basically what they said, which should take care of the practical things and the list of priorities create fiction, count, is not exactly high on the list. “
The film, which adapts so free book Model “One Thousand and One Nights”, part of multiple true stories that took place in Portugal between 2013 and 2014 collected by a group of journalists to portray the Portuguese society in the midst of social and economic crisis.
Asked about the reaction of foreign public a work that uses both professional actors and non-professionals (eg employees of the shipyards of Viana do Castelo or the owner of a Resende cock placed in this court for singing too early ) to expose the crisis, Miguel Gomes recalled that “obviously the context to show a film in Germany and show a movie in Portugal are different things.”
“There is a story called” The Tears of Judge ‘ which it is a long process of court, where it comes from, for example, ‘seen gold’. In Germany everyone thinks that what came out of my head, or that every week there are luxury car raffles organized by taxes, everybody thinks this is absurd, which of course is my invention. Not here, people know who’s had these beautiful ideas and so they laugh in another relationship with the country, “said the director.
Winning in Sydney festival to critical acclaim at the Cannes festival , where he joined the Directors’ Fortnight, “One Thousand and One Nights” will have its debut in Portugal with the first volume entitled “The Restless” on 27 August.
The second volume, called ” The Desolate “is the debut scheduled for September 24, while” The Dark “is scheduled for 01 October
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