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Arabian Nights: Volume 3 -- The Enchanted One

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Scheherazade doubts that she will be able to tell stories to make the king happy.
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Wendy Ide Observer (UK) If this was Scheherazade's final story, it would have been unlikely to stave off her execution. Rated: 2/5 May 8, 2016 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian What a delicate, elegant marvel these movies have been. Rated: 4/5 May 5, 2016 Full Review David Jenkins Little White Lies A glowing lovesong to Portugal performed by a man who has mastered a range of exotic instruments. Rated: 5/5 Apr 21, 2016 Full Review Dustin Chang Floating World Even its political subtext is always there, Gomes doesn't abandon the human element and showing resilience of ordinary people in dire circumstances neither does he neglect playing with conventions of cinema as a narrative medium. Feb 14, 2021 Full Review Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly A six-and-a-half hour triptych that is unlike anything you've ever seen. Aug 2, 2019 Full Review Mattie Lucas From the Front Row Ends with a whimper rather than a bang, seemingly losing sight of its own righteous indignation at the injustices facing the people of Portugal after its economic crisis. Rated: 2/4 Jun 5, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member In the final act of "Arabian Nights," Gomes is to his audience as Scheherazade is to the Auspicious King - telling us the story, rather than displaying it. Unfortunately for us, the story that "The Enchanted One" is most comprised of is that of "The Inebriating Chorus of the Chaffinches," the most underwhelming and sluggish story told throughout "Arabian Nights" as it feels much longer than the film's excessive run-time. Most disappointingly, the film's conclusion is more interested in a lengthy shot of a bird-trapper walking down a gravel road than the fate of the endangered protagonist. As for the entirety of "Arabian Nights": In the Modernity of Time, there lives on the archipelago an ambitious director who crafted an intelligent, long-winded, audacious film which expresses both love and disdain for his homeland of Portugal through a series of fantastical and absurd stories rooted in a narrative structure drawn from "One Thousand and One Nights." Even the most adventurous of film-goers would proclaim his six-hour saga as "incomprehensible nonsense" and others a "higher form of art." Me, I believe that it is both. If Gomes portrayed his world as is, perhaps it would be even more incomprehensible and also less entertaining. As an entire collection, my arbitrary numerical score for "Arabian Nights" is a 3.5/5 stars or a 7/10. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member 6.3/10, my review: http://wp.me/p1eXom-2rs Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member http://www.clevelandmovieblog.com/2016/02/arabian-nights-volume-3-enchanted-one.html Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member The final volume of the trilogy, The Enchanted One comes full circle to Scheherazade's own story, as Miguel Gomes brilliantly places an ancient Bagdad against modern day Lisbon. Scheherazade's story is definately the highlight of this final volume, with Crista Alfaiate once again delivering a powerful and loving performance. Despite this, I found the movie to struggle a little because of the structure adopted for this volume. Scheherazade's tale feels more like a closure for the movie but yet its placed at the beginning of the movie with two more stories told by Scheherazade after her own. And the chaffinch story felt too long and uninteresting, as it is mostly told by way of text and not even Scheherazade's voice. The Hot Forest story also felt somewhat misplaced, interrupting the chaffinch story midway and not adding much other than the climate of social unrest also affecting Law and Order officials. It would have been much better to dedicate an entire short story to the several protests instead of focusing briefly on the police and national guard's one. In fact the protest by the people in the chaffinch story would have been much better as a separate story in tandem with the police protest. The soundtrack is once again exquisite tying in closely with the ending scene to a satisfying conclusion. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Scheherazade doubts that she will be able to tell stories to make the king happy.
Director
Miguel Gomes
Producer
Sandro Aguilar, Thomas Ordonneau, Luís Urbano
Screenwriter
Telmo Churro, Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo
Distributor
Kino Lorber
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Brazilian Portuguese
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 18, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 25, 2017
Runtime
2h 5m
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