Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

Directed by Miguel Gomes

Produced by Shellac Sud, Komplizen Film

2015132 min7.0 / 10

A dreamlike, melancholic retelling of Arabian Nights tales that blends surreal narrative logic with meditations on suffering, judgment, and mortality.

Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights of her ordeal: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad!

Questions people ask

  • Is Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One sad? Yes, very. More sad than 96% of films.

  • Does Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One end with hope? No. Less hopeful than 91% of films.

  • Is Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 61% of films.

  • Is Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One scary? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

82/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

There is almost nothing else like this.

Rarity95

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise81

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love70

How much audiences actually like it

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Like Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

Nearest across the full emotional profile.

Same Mood as Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

Like Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One, But Darker

Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

Like Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One, But Lighter

Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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