Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
- sombre
- measured
- surreal
- signature
Sombre, measured, measured austerity / anthology, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights of her ordeal: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad!
Our read · Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (2015) reads as a sombre, measured, surreal austerity · anthology · crisis entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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