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What Ever Happened To Top Gear’s Bridge From The Burma Special?

2014 Top Gear was perfection. It featured the McLaren P1 , horny horses, and the Burma Special episode. But however much we liked this episode, there’s one aspect of it that we’ve never discussed. What happened to that bridge they built?

Driving three lorries, Clarkson, Hammond and May were following the structure of the book,  Bridge Over The River Kwai. And just like in the book, they eventually go to a river which they had to cross. It was no surprise that somewhere in their travels they’d gone wrong and were in fact not at the famous River Kwai, but instead the River Kok, which flows from Burma to the East towards Mueang Chiang Rai in Thailand. Yep, they were a few hundred miles out.

Despite this, they got to building the bridge.

After a few technical difficulties, including Jeremy tipping over a crane and nearly killing James, then tipping a just woken up James out of his tent and into the river, they eventually had something built that resembled a bridge.

It worked, but there were a couple of problems. One, a comment Clarkson made about the bridge became viral after he used a racial slur in a joke and caused quite a stir. Two, well, they had to dismantle it afterwards despite it being strong enough to cross.

Someone on Reddit emailed the campsite in which the trio were staying throughout that special episode, and they replied with all the information we needed. This was their reply:

Hi, Thanks for this. You are correct and they did stay with us. Indeed I found the location for them and we organized all the logistics. Unfortunately, the bridge was then taken down after the filming even though we asked for it to remain in place as it was an excellent facility for the local people. The bridge was not built over the Kok, but over the Fang River which flows into the Kok, for a number of reasons. Best wishes,

What a shame that this masterfully(ish) built bridge had to be taken down. At least we’ve still got the special to remember it. And the massive backlash that Clarkson received, of course.

Steven Douglas

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It wouldn’t be Clarkson without backlash of some sort. That’s our lovable gorilla for ya!

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Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives to get married. During his travels, however, panic gives way to melancholy. Contemplating the emptiness of his existence, the cowardly Edward wonders what has become of Molly… Determined to get married and amused by Edward’s move, Molly follows his trail on this Asian grand tour.

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Myanmar Grand Tour – 18 Days

Grand Myanmar Tour is an ultimate journey that exposes the temptation of Myanmar at its best. From the former capital of Yangon, we take a short flight to Bagan ; one of Asia’s most popular archaeological destinations and one out of two most pre-eminent religious old cities in South East Asia, explore Bagan from the sky by hot balloon then enjoy a day cruise along Ayeyawaddy River to the beauty of ancient Mandalay. Continue on; relax on the loveliest places in Myanmar - Ngapali Beach, famous for its natural and unspotted beauty up to this day.

Trip duration: 18 days 17 nights Start: Yangon -  Finish: Yangon Activities: sightseeing/ boat cruising/ leisure on the beach. Tour operates: Year round/ upon request Dates: No fixed departure dates. You may go whenever you wish

BRIEF ITINERARY: Day 01: Yangon arrival (D) Day 02: Yangon – Bagan (Flight) (B/ L) Day 03: Bagan Sightseeing (B/ L) Day 04: Bagan – Mt. Popa – Bagan (B/ L) Day 05: Bagan – Mandalay (Cruise) (B/ L) Day 06: Mandalay – Mingun – Mandalay (B/ L) Day 07: Mandalay – Amarapura – Ava – Sagaing – Mandalay (B/L) Day 08: Mandalay – Pyin Oo Lwin – Mandalay (B/L) Day 09: Mandalay – Heho (Flight) – Pindaya – Kalaw (B/L) Day 10: Kalaw – Nyaung Shwe – Inle (B/ L) Day 11: Inle – Indein – Inle (B/L) Day 12: Inle – Saga – Inle (B/ L) Day 13: Inle – Heho – Thandwe – Ngapali Beach (Flight) (B) Day 14: Ngapali beach (B) Day 15: Ngapali beach (B) Day 16: Ngapali beach (B) Day 17: Ngapali – Thandwe – Yangon (Flight) (B) Day 18: Yangon Departure (B)

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Day 01: Yangon arrival (D) Arrival at Yangon International Airport. Welcome by our well-experienced English speaking tour guide. Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel. Start excursion to city center, colonial style buildings and Sule Pagoda - a landmark in downtown Yangon. Proceed to visit the Shwedagon Pagoda - this massive bell-shaped stupa rises nearly 100 meters above its hill-top surroundings. Wander through this magnificent structure and its courtyards, stupas, bells, temples, and Buddha images, and see religious and secular visitors from all parts of the globe. Shwedagon has become the symbol of Myanmar. Dinner will be served in Karaweik Palace Restaurant watching Myanmar Traditional Dances. Overnight stay at hotel in Yangon.

Day 02: Yangon – Bagan (Flight) (B/ L) After breakfast, transfer to airport for domestic flight to Bagan; one of Asia’s most popular archaeological destinations and one out of two most pre-eminent religious old cities in South East Asia. On arrival, transfer to hotel and proceed for sightseeing, starting with the busy Nyaung U Market – a typical local market; followed by visits to most distinctive pagodas such as Shwezigon Pagoda – the holiest one believed to be enshrined with Buddha tooth and hair; Gubyaukgyi Temple (Wetkyiinn village) – the 13th century ‘cave temple’ with fine frescoes of scenes from Jakatas; Ananda Temple – one of the masterpieces surviving and remaining in Bagan and considered to be in the Mon architecture style; Thatbyinnyu Temple- the highest building on the Bagan plain. A visit to the lacquer ware factory followed by a visit to local village. Take a boat ride along the Ayeyarwaddy River to discover the local life and view the sunset. Lunch at local restaurant. Overnight stay at hotel in Bagan.

Day 03: Hot air balloon - Bagan Sightseeing (B/ L) Wake up early today; we will explore Bagan from the sky. A colorful balloon will slowly take you to anyplace in Bagan. The huge temples are reduced to a small model and the whole view of Bagan will be in your eyes. Back to the hotel for breakfast; proceed to visit Myinkabar Gubyaukgyi Temple- well known for its wall painting depicting scenes from the Jataka, Kyansittha Umin, Ananda Oakkyaung, Manuha, Nanbaya, Dhamanyangyi Temple-built by King Narathu in 12th century which displayed the finest brickwork in Bagan. Enjoy sunset over bagan from Shwesandaw Pagoda. Lunch at local restaurant. Overnight stay at hotel in Bagan.

Day 04: Bagan – Mt. Popa – Bagan (B/ L) Early breakfast at hotel, drive to Mount Popa, visit the great extinct volcano. Rising out of the shimmering heat, the solitary volcanic crag of Mt. Popa is home to Myanmar's most powerful "nats". Visit the Nat Museum with its life-sized statues of the 37 Nat Gods. Walk up the steps to the stupas and shrines that top the hill above the museum, seeing many pilgrims along the way. The way by the roadside can see the locals climbing up the palm tree and making jaggery. Return to Bagan and upon arrival, visit Payathonezu and Dhamayarzika temples. Lunch at local restaurant. Overnight stay at hotel in Bagan.

Day 05: Bagan – Mandalay (Cruise) (B/ L) Breakfast at hotel. Continue your Tour with AURA MYANMAR RIVER CRUISE to Mandalay, the spiritual heart of Myanmar. Upon Arrival, transfer to Hotel. Lunch on Cruise. Overnight stay at hotel in Mandalay.

Day 06: Mandalay – Mingun – Mandalay (B/ L) From the Mandalay Gawwein Jetty, we would take a short boat ride up river to reach Mingun, located at the other side of the Ayeyarwaddy river and north of Mandalay. The boat ride is always pleasant as one can learn the ways of local life along the river. Upon arrival, visit Pondaw Paya, a five metre high working model of the gigantic and half completed Mingun Pahtotawgyi Pagoda; Settaawya Paya, the vaulted shrine with a footprint of the Buddha; the Mingun Pahtotawgyi Paya, King Bodaw Phaya's ambitious but unsuccessful project to build one of the world's largest chedis; the world renowned ringing Mingun Bell weighing ninety tons; Hsinbyume Paya, a representation of the Sulamani Paya which stands atop Mt. Meru. Return to Mandalay. Sightseeing in Mandalay, the last capital of Myanmar kingdom, includes Mahamuni Buddha Image – believed to be cast in bronze in front of Buddha himself and nowadays gilded with thick gold leaf; gold leaf hammering, marble carving, and tapestry making. Afternoon sightseeing includes Shwenandaw (Golden Palace) monastery – still existing masterpiece of last Myanmar kingdom’s architecture in teak and wood carving; Kuthodaw Pagoda – renowned as the world’s largest book; and Mandalay Hill – regarded a natural watch tower in the plain region of Mandalay – to view the sunset. Lunch at local restaurant. Overnight stay at hotel in Mandalay.

Day 07: Mandalay – Amarapura – Ava – Sagaing – Mandalay (B/L) Breakfast at hotel. Drive to Amarapura- the “City of Immortals” and visit the 150 year old Mahagandayon Monastery, a famous Buddhist learning center. It is home to a thousand monks, who will form a procession as they go to take their noon and final meal of the day at 10:30. Continue to 200 year-old U BEIN Teak Bridge built in 1782. Drive to AVA for excursion; tour highlights include the twenty seven metre-high Masonry Watch Tower, the Mai Nu's brick and stucco Monastery, AVA Bagaya Monastery built with two hundred and seventy six teak pillars. Visit the Myanmar traditional alms bowls workshop. Cross AVA Bridge, built by British engineers, to visit picturesque Sagaing Hill which is perhaps the living center of the Buddhist faith in Myanmar today. The hillsides are dotted with numerous pagodas and monasteries. Proceed to visit the Kaungmudaw Pagoda, with its huge spherical dome in the Ceylonese (Sri Lanka) style. In the evening, enjoy the sunset from the Sagaing Hill. Proceed to Mandalay. Lunch at local restaurant. Overnight stay at hotel in Mandalay.

Day 08: Mandalay – Pyin Oo Lwin – Mandalay (B/L) Breakfast at hotel. Drive (80 km-2hrs) on a scenic route to the cool hill station of Pyin Oo Lwin (Maymyo). Visit downtown Waterfalls, colonial-buildings and the Central market. Photo stop at the classic place. Unique, brightly painted miniature stage coaches, drawn by lively teams of horses, are waiting to carry travelers to the National Kandawgyi Gardens, the beautiful botanical gardens of Pyin Oo Lwin. The journey by stagecoach takes approximately twenty five minutes. Proceed to Peik Chin Myaung Caves, a Buddhist shrine since ancient times. Stop at a winemaking shop before returning by road to Mandalay. Lunch at local restaurant. Overnight stay at hotel in Mandalay.

Day 09: Mandalay – Heho (Flight) – Pindaya – Kalaw (B/L) Early breakfast at Hotel. Transfer to Airport and take Domestic flight to Heho. Upon Arrival, continue excursion by road to Pindaya – a small quiet town, famous for its thousands of Buddha Images deposited inside the caves centuries of years ago. Visit Pindaya Caves, traditional Shan paper making, pottery and umbrella making villages. In the afternoon, proceed driving to Kalaw, British colonial hill station (45 km-1hr). Sightseeing in Kalaw includes pine trees and orange groves and Tudor style houses and English gardens of colonial days remain. Lunch at local restaurant. Overnight stay at hotel in Kalaw.

Day 10: Kalaw – Nyaung Shwe – Inle (B/ L) After breakfast, proceed to Nyaung Shwe – a small town located at the entrance of Lake Inle. After a scenic drive and a stop at the Nyaung Shwe village’s market, you will arrive at the dock to find a private motorboat waiting for you. And then, exciting boat trip to see floating gardens and stilt-house villages, visit the Nga Phe Chaung Monastery- one of the oldest monasteries on the lake and well known for its jumping cats. Proceed to famous wish-fulfilling Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda, Innpawkhone Village - famous for its silk weaving handloom and a cheroot factory where the local Burmese cigars are made by hand, black smith, silversmith workshops and long neck Padaung women. Lunch at local restaurant. Overnight at floating hotel in Inle Lake.

Day 11: Inle – Indein – Inle (B/L) After breakfast, we explore the southern part of the Lake by boat sailing through small twisting and turning creeks to reach INDEIN village. This small village located on the south-western bank of the lake is famous for its ruined clusters of pagodas dated back to 16th century. The tranquil peaceful ambience and the ruins overgrown with bushes will bring you centuries back. Proceed to Ywa-Ma village, gold and silversmiths workshop. In the evening, enjoy the sunset while visiting the Inle Lake by boat. Lunch at local restaurant. Overnight at floating hotel in Inle Lake.

Day 12: Inle – Saga – Inle (B/ L) After breakfast, you will have a boat trip to visit Saga (3 hours), the ancient capital of Shan located at the south of the lake. Visit the ruins of the site Thar-Gaung, Pa-Oh and Intha minorities’ villages, as well as lotus fiber weaving factory, pottery and rice wine distillation. Lunch at local restaurant. Overnight at floating hotel in Inle Lake.

Day 13: Inle – Heho – Thandwe – Ngapali Beach (Flight) (B) Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to Heho Airport for your domestic flight to Thandwe near Ngapali. Arrive Thandwe Airport and drive to Ngapali Beach, named after Naples in Italy. Check into the hotel. Entire day free at leisure. Overnight Stay at Resort Hotel in Ngapali Beach.

Day 14: Ngapali beach (B) Breakfast at hotel. Leisure with your own activities. Overnight Stay at Resort Hotel in Ngapali Beach.

Day 15: Ngapali beach (B) Breakfast at hotel. Leisure with your own activities. Overnight Stay at Resort Hotel in Ngapali Beach.

Day 16: Ngapali beach (B) Breakfast at hotel. Leisure with your own activities. Overnight Stay at Resort Hotel in Ngapali Beach.

Day 17: Ngapali – Thandwe – Yangon (Flight) (B) Breakfast at Hotel. Transfer to Airport for flight back to Yangon. Upon Arrival, visit Swedaw Pagoda (Buddha’s Tooth Relic), Kabar Aye (World Peace Pagoda), Buddhist Museum and Mahapasana Cave where the Buddhist Synods are held and finally visit to China Town in the late afternoon. Overnight stay at hotel in Yangon.

Day 18: Yangon Departure (B) After Breakfast, visit Bogyoke Market used to be called Scott Market, the largest market in Yangon with time to browse among the hundreds of stalls for souvenir bargains, arts & crafts souvenir shopping center. Leisure on your own time before transfer to the airport for departure flight out.

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• Accommodation in Double/Twin bedded rooms with daily breakfast
• Meals: “B”=Breakfast + 10 “L”=Lunch & 1 Welcome “D”=Dinner as listed in the above itinerary
• Domestic Airfares: Yangon – Bagan, Mandalay – Heho, Heho – Thandwe, Thandwe – Yangon included tax (subject to change without prior notice).
• All entrance fees and boat trip
• Transfers and tours with Local English Speaking Guide
• Transportation by air-conditioned cars

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• Early check in and late check-out from hotel
• Meals: “L”=Lunch & “D”=Dinner as not listed above
• Travel insurance
• International Airfares
• Expenditure of personal nature, such as porter charges, camera fees, drinks, souvenirs, laundry etc.
• International airport tax in Yangon (US$10.- per person)
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Hi Giang, We just got back from 2 weeks in Thailand and Myanmar. I just wanted to let you know that everything in Myanmar was wonderful. Your arrangements were among the best we have ever experienced on a tour. The guides were great. They met us on time at airports and were very friendly. I would especially recommend the guide in Bagan- San- who was extremely knowledgeable about the temples and history. Also, the hotels were superb- Bagan and Inle Lake were truly beautiful. I would definitely you use again if we return to Asia. Thank you,

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Directed by Miguel Gomes

In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia.

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Kei Chikaura Tom Dercourt Marta Donzelli Viola Fügen Thomas Ordonneau Gregorio Paonessa Filipa Reis Holger Stern Michael Weber Xie Meng

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Telmo Churro Maureen Fazendeiro Mariana Ricardo Miguel Gomes

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Maureen Fazendeiro

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Rui Poças Sayombhu Mukdeeprom

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Thales Junqueira Marcos Pedroso

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Luciano Cammerieri

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Review by davidehrlich ★★★

The spirit of “Sans Soleil” casts a long shadow over Miguel Gomes’ beguiling “Grand Tour,” a less essayistic but similarly atemporal travelogue that sometimes feels almost as indebted to Chris Marker as Gomes’ “Tabu” was to F.W. Murnau. Much like Marker’s 1983 masterpiece, Gomes’ film is propelled by the mysterious frisson that it creates between “exotic” documentary footage and disembodied narration. And much like “Sans Soleil,” “Grand Tour” uses that non-stop voiceover to shape its accompanying images into an abstract story about the elusive relationship between time and memory.

In this case, that story is a love story (of sorts), one that again finds Gomes harkening back to the kind of blinkered colonial romances that were so prevalent in the…

Review by KYK ★★★

<Molly closing in on Edward> this is going to ruin the tour... the grand tour

Review by Julia ★★★★

molly is me when a guy ignores my text for 4 days

Review by Diogo Vale ★★

Miguel Gomes and his team went to Asia looking for a film but sadly came back empty-handed. We're left with some images that can hardly stand on their own if not for their predatory fascination with the foreign Other, like all the worst travel literature - including such staples of the western imaginary as the human powered ferris wheels of Myanmar and the train that passes through a building in Chongqing, China. Next time, take their money away and they might actually have to come up with a film.

Review by Joana

Acho que o próprio Frank Sinatra adoraria saber o que andam a fazer com a My Way nas Filipinas.

Review by Rui Alves de Sousa ★½ 9

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Enquanto via “Gran Tour”, lembrei-me muito de uma certa tendência da poesia contemporânea portuguesa: a linguagem é ora erudita, ora corriqueira (se possível com alguns palavrões arbitrariamente colocados em alguns versos); ora demonstram-se referências artísticas superiores como um apreço por actos simples do quotidiano (como lavar a roupa ou fazer o almoço); poemas que, em suma, têm em si uma essência que junta um tédio de se fazer parte de uma elite afastada da realidade que se gaba de fazer várias viagens por ano aos locais mais recônditos do mundo (cada uma delas a valer investimentos equivalentes a seis meses, ou até às vezes um ano, de salários mínimos – e mesmo assim, ainda teriam de ter mais algumas notas…

Review by Mike Kennedy ★★★★★ 2

After being blown away by Miguel Gomes’s Arabian Nights trilogy that I saw at MIFF2015, this was my most anticipated film of this year's MIFF and Gomes did not disappoint, even if the film proved surprisingly (to me at any rate) divisive with several indignant walkouts at both sessions I attended.

In the first half hour, Gomes sketches out the themes that will run through the film, including  racism, colonialism, gender relations, oriental exoticism, the nature of time, and even quantum physics - the film is a great practical example of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle - and, of course, serendipity, since I was wearing my Heisenberg tee shirt that day for no other reason than that it was next in the…

Review by Matt Neglia ★★★½

Miguel Gomes’s GRAND TOUR is a demanding cinematic experience that rewards those willing to embrace its creativity. Part love story, part space-time travelogue, but always dreamy with its evocative black-and-white imagery, often feeling like it was plucked from a different era. The unconventional structure & innovative use of the form can be captivating, even if I didn’t find myself fully invested in the characters. This is a pure art house film where mileage will vary. Curious to catch it again later this year.

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Review by Milesware ★★★★½

Gomes conducts an experiment few other filmmakers dare to undertake - an irrevocably profound challenge to the boundaries of make-believe - with astonishing results. Grand Tour commits to a question, with confidence, of where stark realism ends and where glossy, staged fantasy begins in the process of storytelling, to which it answers with an audacious kaleidoscope of modern documentary footage and period narrative scenes unfolding, with the line between sensibilities blurred, into a grand waltz of puppet shows, motorbikes, smoke pipes, and spotlights, of space and time. It’s not just an ambitious odyssey into Asia, but a passionate, maddeningly enticing quest into cinema itself as a concept. 9/10. Closer to an 8 than a 10.

Watched at TIFF, followed by Q&A with Miguel Gomes

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There’s an image where a smartphone is placed in the past and begins to ring, the present disrupting the past.

There’s a an image of a motorbike driving through city streets which dissolves to a dance upon a stage, except the dissolve stops, so the images float synchronously, and a further image is then added, a dissolve within a dissolve, the various presences alive and complicating one another. 

There’s an image of a shadow puppet show, where first we see behind the screen, the illusion, and subsequently the actual shadow puppet show, as Gomes is comfortable with his own prowess as a director, with interrogating the artifice of the narratives he weaves. 

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Review by Patrick W ★★★★★

This is pretty much ideal cinema for me. Especially the first hour (Edward’s story) is flawless cinema. It’s ambitious and poetic. This makes Miguel Gomes' film one of those rare strokes of fortune in cinematic reflection, which are at once deconstruction and fusion, longing, dreamscape, and present reality.

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All we know is that, when this low-level British diplomat (who, like all the British characters, whether they hail from London or pine for Yorkshire, speaks in Portuguese) shows up at Mandalay train station, it is 1918, near midnight and he is drunk. The next day, when he goes to pick Molly up from her arriving steamship, his nerve suddenly fails, and before he even claps eyes on her, he scarpers onto the next ship bound for Singapore.

This is the story of “Grand Tour,” but it is not the half of “Grand Tour.” From the beginning, Gomes’ eccentric, puckish sensibilities are in evidence, with every beautifully rendered black-and-white, period-set interior alternating with bustling, bristling contemporary footage of the various towns and countries featured. Between 1918 and now, some of them have changed their names — Burma is now Myanmar, Siam is now Thailand — but none have changed their spirit, a fact that the seemingly reckless but actually deceptively meticulous construction makes clear.

Sometimes in color, sometimes in monochrome, with the narrators speaking the local lingo and knitting Edward and Molly’s colonial-era stories into the Asia of today, we get gorgeous on-the-fly snapshots of modern life across the continent. A rickety Rangoon ferris wheel propelled by hand (and foot). Workers untangling the wires atop Saigon’s overloaded telephone poles. Old Chinese men playing mahjong; Filipino locals riding tuktuks; Lunar New Year fireworks exploding over the Saigon skyline; a portly man in a restaurant moving himself to tears with his karaoke rendition of “My Way” before returning to his noodles, dabbing at wet eyes.

The film also has a recurring motif in the puppet shows that seemingly every culture has developed, and developed differently, as a storytelling medium. There are marionettes and paper silhouettes and two-person representations of — are they turkeys? Ostriches? Who knows? But that we always see the puppeteers as much as we see their puppets seems appropriate to the sense we get, throughout this overflowing cornucopia of worldly pleasures, of a single intelligence, a particular curiosity and a uniquely skewed sense of humor unifying so much that, in our darker moods, might seem actually to divide us.

Gomes shot this extraordinary film in an extraordinary way. Hampered by Covid-era restrictions, a lot of the modern footage — credited to three cinematographers in Rui Poças, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom and Guo Liang — was directed remotely, while the period segments, whether in bamboo forests or Raffles Hotel or aboard a ship whose captain speaks in six different languages over the mooing of a cargo hold full of cows, were creations on a sound stage. But even aside from the occasional deliberate anachronism — like a cellphone dropped in a forest when Molly is on the verge of catching up to Edward — and despite the brash collisions of stock and style, and scripted fiction and found-footage reality, “Grand Tour” is a remarkably coherent, if richly complex experience.

Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (Competition). May 22, 2024. Running time: 129 MIN.

• Production: (Portugal-Italy-France) An Uma Pedra no Sapato production in co-production with Vivo film, Shellac, Cinéma Defacto. (World sales: Match Factory, Cologne.) Producer: Filipa Reis. Executive Producer: João Miller Guerra. Co-producers: Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa, Thomas Ordonneau, Tom Dercourt. 
• Crew: Director: Miguel Gomes. Screenplay: Mariana Ricardo, Telmo Churro, Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes. Camera: Rui Poças, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Guo Liang. Editors: Telmo Churro, Pedro Filipe Marques.
• With: Crista Alfaiate, Gonçalo Waddington, Cláudio da Silva, Lang Khê Tran. (Portuguese, Chinese, Thai, French, Burmese, Vietnamese, Filipino, Japanese dialogue)

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