The New “Arabian Nights”
Adam Thirlwell writes: ‘Miguel Gomes’s majestic new movie “Arabian Nights” begins not, as the original Nights do, in the time of “the ancient kings of Persia, who extended their empire into the Indies, over all the islands thereunto belonging, a great way beyond the Ganges and as far as China,†but in the soon to be disused shipyards of Viana do Castelo, in the depressed north of modern Portugal.’
