Grand Tour

A beautiful historical drama from Portuguese director Miguel Gomes about a jilted wife pursuing her fiancee across Asia.

Grand Tour is an eccentric and playful odyssey, combining period drama and contemporary documentary in a highly original style. In colonial Burma during the First World War, civil servant Edward abandons his fiancée Molly on their wedding day. Molly will not give up on her betrothal so easily and follows him doggedly across Asia. Drifting through China, Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam, the film shows the very different perspectives and adventures of the two characters, probing the influence of colonial history on the modern world.

"The movements of the camera and the rhythm of the montage merge in an intoxicating flow that conveys the unbridled excitement of exploration and discovery." - Giovanni Marchini Camia, Sight and Sound