Grand Tour
Burma, 1917: it is a special day for young Rangoon-based civil servant Edward. It is this day that his fiancée Molly will arrive and once she arrives, or so the agreement goes, they will immediately get married. But when she arrives, every trace of Edward is missing. At the very last minute, he got cold feet and decided to embark headlong on a journey right across Asia, trying to stay out of his fiancée's hands. Molly does not feel rejected, but sees his departure as a challenge; cheerfully she travels after him, determined to marry him after all. Meanwhile, Edward begins to wonder more and more what his life is really all about - melancholy strikes.
With a narrator, jumps in time and remarkable editing, this love story shot partly in colour, partly in black-and-white is a journey along the borders of dream and reality, past and present. It earned director Miguel Gomes the award for Best Direction at Cannes.
