Portuguese film director Miguel Gomes is one of the premiere filmmakers of the playfully absurd and the surreal, employing a strange mix of those tones.
He dazzled audiences in 2012 with “Tabu,” his surrealist meditation that broke through to international audiences, and then in 2015, he made his opus with the three-part “Arabian Nights” that was six hours in total.
All of his films mix vibrant, mad scientist tendencies—dashes of mischievous, low-key hilarity and profound, solemn poignancy with fever dream hypnotism.
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