Original name: Grand Tour
English name: Grand Tour
Year: 2024
Run time: 129 minutes
Language: Portuguese
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Black and White
Country: Portugal, Italy, France
Director: Miguel Gomes
Producers: Filipa Reis
Cast: Crista Alfaiate, Gonçalo Waddington, Cláudio da Silva, Lang-Khê Tran
Screenplay: Mariana Ricardo, Telmo Churro, Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes
Cinematographer: Rui Poças AIP ABC, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Guo Liang
Editor: Telmo Churro, Pedro Filipe Marques
Sound Designer: Miguel Martins
Costume Designer: Sílvia Grabowski
Production Designer: Thales Junqueira, Marcos Pedroso
Production Company: Vivo Film, Uma Pedra no Sapato, Shellac Films, Cinéma De Facto
World Sales: MUBI
Miguel Gomes is a Portuguese film director who has directed several short films presented and awarded in international film festivals. Gomes is presently working on Selvajaria, based on a book by brazilian author Euclides da Cunha and Cantiga, based on a graphic novel by french illustrator Blexbolex. Retrospectives of Gomes' work took place in Austria, Italy, Spain, Germany, Greece, USA. He received a Career Award at Laceno d’Oro Film Festival (Italy, 2016). Miguel graduated in Film from the Lisbon Film and Theatre School and worked as a film critic. He lives in Lisbon.
Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives to get married. During his travels, however, panic gives way to melancholy. Contemplating the emptiness of his existence, the cowardly Edward wonders what has become of Molly… Determined to get married and amused by Edward's move, Molly follows his trail on this Asian grand tour.