Director Miguel Gomes cameos in his own massive three-part film, Arabian Nights, as a director who cannot handle the pressure of making a movie while his country of Portugal is enduring a massive ...

The latest film from acclaimed Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes (“Our Beloved Month of August,” “Tabu”) is his most ambitious work by far. Divided into three feature-length “volumes” — “The Restless One ...

Miguel Gomes’ Our Beloved Month of August and its ecstatically received follow-up, Tabu, showcased the director’s love of storytelling as a means of contemplating reality. In these films, by ...

After drawing raves for the tenderly eccentric “Tabu,” Portuguese director Miguel Gomes is back with a project of even greater ambition and intrigue. “Arabian Nights,” set to premiere during the ...

Miguel Gomes’ three-part Directors’ Fortnight entry uses tall tales to offer allegorical commentary on the challenges facing his country. By Scott Roxborough Arabian Nights Film Still - H 2015 Miguel ...

A new twist on the old magic in the tales of the Arabian Nights. Scheherazade by Léon Samoilovitch Bakst 1896. The Tales of a Thousand and One Nights – the Arabian Nights – start with a terrible ...