Grand Tour

Miguel Gomes / Portugal, Italy & France / 2024 / 129 min

The year is 1917 and Edward, a civil servant, is stationed in the Burmese capital of Rangoon by the colonial British Empire. And now his fiancée Molly has come there so that the two can finally get married. But instead of welcoming Molly, Edward decides to elope and jumps on a ship to Singapore. It’s the start of a two-part continental chase between the cowardly Edward, on his grand tour of Asia with doubts and hangovers in his backpack, and the tenacious Molly, who is having a grand time tracking him down. But when he suddenly stops hearing from her, his marital panic turns to melancholy. ‘Grand Tour’ is a historical film shot in the present without trying to hide the contemporary reality of cars and mobile phones crashing the film’s old-fashioned universe. A delirious and cinematic expedition that crosses borders, genres and time, and a new milestone from Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes who won Best Director at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.