{"id":13632,"date":"2020-07-27T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13632"},"modified":"2020-07-25T22:10:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T02:10:20","slug":"arabian-nights-2015-miguel-gomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13632","title":{"rendered":"Arabian Nights (2015, Miguel Gomes)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first twenty minutes of this alternates documentary segments about a shipyard with scenes about murder hornets, then in a reference to the last very long movie<\/a> I watched this year, the film director runs away (“because I’m stupid and abstraction gives me vertigo”). I remember reading that this project was full of criticisms of Portugal’s economic policies, and that it’s divided into three movies in order to get triple the funding. It has its moments (the rooster legal drama, love triangle portrayed by kids and told through text messages, a naked slap party, a tribute to Ghost Dog<\/em>, some very good birds), but it’s less fun than the Pasolini – there’s one movie’s worth of stories here stretched over six hours.<\/p>\n

The film crew, in trouble:<\/em>
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Rooster on trial for crowing too early:<\/em>
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Text Triangle:<\/em>
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No-Bowels, a woman murderer who becomes a local hero for fooling the cops:<\/em>
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Outdoor trial is crashed by a genie:<\/em>
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The dog Dixie sees its shadow-self:<\/em>
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Pretty finches:<\/em>
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The first twenty minutes of this alternates documentary segments about a shipyard with scenes about murder hornets, then in a reference to the last very long movie I watched this year, the film director runs away (“because I’m stupid and abstraction gives me vertigo”). I remember reading that this project was full of criticisms of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,239,2681,318,123,1670,370,2680],"class_list":["post-13632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-birds","tag-genie","tag-insects","tag-long-ass-movie","tag-miguel-gomes","tag-portugal","tag-trilogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13653,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632\/revisions\/13653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}