Having won Best Director at Cannes for Miguel Gomes and getting tapped to be Portugal’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards (no nomination, though), the acclaimed historical epic Grand Tour has finally arrived.
How to watch Grand Tour in Australia
Grand Tour is screening in Australian cinemas from February 13, 2025.
What is Grand Tour about?
We set our scene in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar) in the year 1907, where British colonial bureacrat Gonçalo Waddington having second thoughts about his upcoming nuptials to his fiancee, Molly, and hits the bricks just before she’s due to step off the boat to meet him. He takes off, drifting from city to city throughout South Easy Asia. She heads on in pursuit, and so we follow their parallel storylines, interspersed with street scenes and slices of life from across the region, shot more or less on the fly and with little care taken vis-a-vis period accuracy. It’s a bit of a thinker. And don’t expect the film to draw any obvious connections between the early 20th century scees and the documentary footage—that’s an exercise left for the viewer.
The cast of Grand Tour
Gonçalo Waddington is errant fiance Edward; Crista Alfaiate is the jilted Molly; Cláudio da Silva is Timothy Sanders; Lang Khê Tran is Ngoc; Jorge Andrade is Reginald; João Pedro Vaz is Reverendo Carpenter; João Pedro Bénard is Horace Seagrave; Teresa Madruga is Espia; Joana Bárcia is Lady Dragon; Jani Zhao is Noiva Chinesa; Manuela Couto is Mrs. Cooper; Diogo Dória is Major Brown; Américo Silva is Comandante Britanico; and Giacomo Leone is Signor Farnese.
Grand Tour trailer
Why we’re excited about Grand Tour
Well, it’s different, we’ll give it that. There’s no middle ground for this sort of thing. It’ll either be a work of experimental genius or a pretentious and high-minded mess. We can’t wait to find out which, though.
