00:00A first for a Portuguese director at Cannes, Miguel Gomes' Best Director Prize, one of
00:07the most important at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, comes for a director
00:12already used to the big stage. After Tabu and the Arabian Nights trilogy, Gomes' grand
00:18tour brought the prestigious award, which he has cherished since he was a child.
00:23As a spectator of cinema since I was a child, I started to watch Portuguese films, thinking
00:30this is possible, to make this cinema in my country, it was remarkable, it was really
00:36decisive, and I have a feeling of belonging to Portuguese cinema, I don't know if I'm
00:41going to say an heresy, but I honestly feel more, a feeling of belonging to Portuguese
00:52than to my own country.
00:54Set in 1918, Grand Tour depicts the story of a man who runs away from his fiancée travelling
01:01through various countries in Asia. The film itself is the result of a long trip by the
01:06director with a small crew to the four corners of the continent. Miguel Gomes thus wanted
01:13to combine two facets, documenting the real world and creating another, an imaginary one.
01:24Today we know it, putting a camera in a place, filming what is in front of us, and on the
01:31other hand, inventing a world, inventing the birth of the sun or the setting of the sun
01:39in a place where there are no windows, which is the studio space.
01:43I tried to make a classic adventure film, but working from such diverse materials.
01:59Grand Tour will debut in main cinemas after the summer. Gomes hopes that prize he won
02:05at Cannes will enable him to finance his next project, an epic film based on the Brazilian
02:11literary classic, The Entelance, by Hercules da Cunha.
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