Grand Tour
by Miguel Gomes
Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives to get married. During his travels, however, panic gives way to melancholy. Contemplating the emptiness of his existence, the cowardly Edward wonders what has become of Molly… Determined to get married and amused by Edward's move, Molly follows his trail on this Asian grand tour.
MIGUEL GOMES (Lisbon, 1972) is a Portuguese film director. Grand Tour is his 6th feature, with world première in Cannes Film Festival’s 2024 Competition. Gomes directed several short films presented and awarded in international film festivals. The Face You Deserve (2004) was his first feature. His next features Our Beloved Month of August (Cannes' Director's Fortnight 2008), Tabu (Berlinale Official Competition 2012: Alfred Bauer and FIPRESCI awards), Arabian Nights (a film in three feature parts, Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, 2015) and The Tsugua Diaries, co-directed with Maureen Fazendeiro (Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, 2019), confirmed his international success and projection. Gomes is presently working on Selvajaria, based on a book by brazilian author Euclides da Cunha and Cantiga, based on a graphic novel by french ilustrator Blexbolex. Retrospectives of Gomes' work took place in Austria, Italy, Spain, Germany, Greece, USA. He received a Career Award at Laceno d’Oro Film Festival (Italy, 2016). Miguel graduated in Film from the Lisbon Film and Theatre School and worked as a film critic. He lives in Lisbon.
DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHY
2024 Grand Tour
2021 The Tsugua Diaries
2015 Arabian Nights - Volume 1, The Restless One
2015 Arabian Nights - Volume 2, The Desolate One
2015 Arabian Nights - Volume 3, The Enchanted One
2013 Redemption
2012 Tabu
2008 Our Beloved Month of August
2006 Canticle of All Creatures
2004 The Face You Deserve
2002 Kalkitos
2002 Thirty-One Means Trouble
2000 A Christmas Inventory
1999 Meanwhile
Crista Alfaiate
Gonçalo Waddington
Cláudio da Silva
Lang-Khê Tran
Director: Miguel Gomes
Script: Mariana Ricardo, Telmo Churro, Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes
Director of Photography: Rui Poças AIP ABC, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Guo Liang
Assistant Director: Patrick Mendes
Continuity: Telmo Churro
Production Designers: Thales Junqueira, Marcos Pedroso
Scenographer: Babi Targino
Casting Director: Maureen Fazendeiro
Casting Coordinator: Filipa Falcão
Costume Master: Sílvia Grabowski
Make up: Emmanuelle Fèvre
Hair Dresser: Daniela Tartari
SFX Coordinator: Elio Terribili
Editing: Telmo Churro, Pedro Filipe Marques
Sound Engineer: Vasco Pimentel, Li Kelan
Sound Designer and Mixer: Miguel Martins
Colorist: Yov Moor
Producer: Filipa Reis
Co-producers: Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa, Thomas Ordonneau, Tom Dercourt
Associate Producers: Viola Fügen, Michael Weber, Holger Stern, Meng Xie, Kei Chika-Ura
Executive Producer: João Miller Guerra
Delegate Producers: Patrícia Faria, Serena Alfieri
Line Producer: Catarina Alves
Original title: GRAND TOUR
International title: GRAND TOUR
Duration: ca. 129 min
Aspect Ratio: xxx
Format: DCP
Sound: 5.1
Year: 2024
Original languages: Portuguese, Chinese, Thai, French, Burmese, Vietnamese, Filipino, Japanese
Countries of production: Portugal, Italy, France
Production Companies: Uma Pedra no Sapato
Co-production Companies: Vivo film, Shellac, Cinéma Defacto
With the support of: ICA - Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual (PT), Fundo de Apoio ao Turismo e ao Cinema (PT), RTP - Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (PT), Creative Europe - Media of the EU, Ibermedia Development , Creatps (JP), Rediance (CN), MiC - Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo (IT), Regione Lazio (IT), CNC - Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée (FR), La Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (FR), ZDF-ARTE, The Match Factory (DE), Eurimages - Council of Europe
