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Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (2015)

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Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (2015)

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (2015)
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Audio: Português DTS 5.1 @ 1509 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama

Director: Miguel Gomes
Writers: Telmo Churro, Miguel Gomes
Stars: Crista Alfaiate, Miguel Gomes, Maria Rueff

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells king Shahryar her stories but these are not those in the book. These are stories based on whatever will be happening in Portugal during the production time of the film. As in the book, these stories will be tragic and comical, with rich and poor, powerless and powerful people, filled with surprising and extraordinary events. This film will be about the reality of a disgraced country, Portugal, under the effects of a global economic crisis.

IMDB - 16 wins

The Restless One is an amazing look at how the austerity measures implemented from 2011 onwards had a negative impact on Portuguese society.

Miguel Gomes mixes the real stories with the fiction of Arabian Nights, resulting in a wonderful combination of reality and fiction.

The story structure albeit being separated into different short stories told by Scheherazade, has the themes of Portugal, its people, spirit and culture as the connection between them.

The Restless One is gut wrenching: beginning with a mild telling of the closure of the Viana Shippyard and the plague of the Asian Wasp, it quickly evolves into the heart of Portuguese problems, from the Troika and the Government's politicians arrogance and sociopath behavior to the despair brought by massive unemployment and the degradation of the National Health Service.

Although the stories have some level of humor in them, which is understandable given the ridiculousness the real life situation reaches, it is the final act that hits hardest, with real people telling their stories, in a way that feels like a heavy punch to the stomach, as it should: these are real stories after all, despite the fictional elements of the Arabian Nights.
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Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (2015)
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (2015)
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (2015)


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