Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One
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Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One

The third volume opens with the director’s vision of Baghdad, in which Scheherazade deflects the advances of a beach boy, enjoys the break-dancing of Elvis the Thief, fends off a genie, and rides with her father—the grand vizier—on a ferris wheel while the turbaned filmmaker smokes a cigarette below. The film proceeds to document Lisbon slum dwellers and their trained birds. 2015, DCP, in Portuguese with English subtitles, France/Germany/Portugal/Switzerland, 125 minutes.