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‘Grand Tour’ Review: Miguel Gomes’ Avant-Garde Eastern Odyssey Is Not Recommended For Tourists – Cannes Film Festival
‘Grand Tour’ review: Miguel Gomes’ arch 1918 eastern odyssey is not recommended for tourists – Cannes Film Festival
Fans of Gomes’s deadpan style — with which he broke out in 2012 when his film Tabu became an arthouse favorite on the festival circuit — will no doubt respond to its eccentricity, its wry irony and its undoubtedly striking monochrome cinematography. Apparently inspired by a briefly mentioned anecdote in Somerset Maugham’s 1930 travel diary The Gentleman in the Parlor, in which the writer recalled an encounter with a fellow Brit who was running away from the prospect of an unhappy marriage. Sometimes there are flashes of color, and, mysteriously, Gomes frequently returns to a street puppeteer — scored with chiming Javanese gamelan music — who tells the story of a giant god and a mortal couple.
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