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This review was originally published on October 9, 2024 out of the New York Film Festival.

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We are recirculating it now timed toGrand Tours theatrical release.

Anxious and uncertain, hes not sure why hes trying to get away from Molly.

Its a quiet dream of freedom as a state of being, tossed this way and that.

She is nothing but purpose.

For all her single-mindedness, shes strangely more open to discovery.

At times, it feels like were watching two different attitudes toward life.

The director doesnt try too hard to make to make his images and sounds cohere.

A rickety modern-day fishing boat puttering from Bangkok to Saigon at twilight fires the imagination with possibility.

Could that shadowy figure at the prow be someone from Edwards tale?

Could this sky needle be a temple, or a magnificent tree?

These visual and sonic contrasts are certainly interesting and artful, but they speak to something more.

The end of the empire is inevitable, an aging British consul in China says in the film.

We will leave without having understood a thing.

(True to Gomess playful approach, all the Brits in the movie speak Portuguese.)

The infrastructure and bureaucracy of empire are largely meaningless in this milieu.

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