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‘Grand Tour’ Takes Viewers Back and Forth Through Time, and Across Southeast Asia 

The film is an exhilarating, heady viewing experience if one gives in to its panoply of alternately familiar, disconcerting, and curious imagery.

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Gonçalo Waddington in ‘Grand Tour.' Via MUBI
CARLOS SOUSA
CARLOS SOUSA

The fascinating new film from Portuguese director Miguel Gomes, “Grand Tour,” has been called a travelogue because it features the sights and sounds of several Far Eastern countries, but a study in contrasts is a more accurate description. 

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CARLOS SOUSA
CARLOS SOUSA

Mr. Sousa has written marketing content for publications, websites, and corporations, including the New Yorker, ELLE, Vulture.com, and General Motors, for over 20 years. Immersed in old world culture and contemporary entertainment as a Portuguese-American dual citizen, and having studied the history of the arts at Rutgers University, he specializes in film and music criticism.

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