1. Tabu (2012) | Rotten Tomatoes
Mysterious and visually striking, Tabu rewards audiences' patience with a swooning romance shot with experimental flair.
Two elderly women, Pilar (Teresa Madruga) and Santa (Isabel Muñoz Cardoso), try to find the man that their recently deceased friend, Aurora (Laura Soveral), had a passionate affair with in her youth.
2. On Tabu (2012) - Sharanya M
Jul 21, 2017 · Tabu is a film about story-telling, and Tabu is a film about the inevitable nostalgia accompanying a well-told story — respectively, seeing as ...
Some thoughts on Tabu (Miguel Gomes’s latest); at the outset I will point you here , where you can read a compilation of all the informed criticism and analysis (that I myself haven’t read because I want to put my thoughts down before I read everything the MUBI critics say, fabulous as t
3. Tabu. 2012. Directed by Miguel Gomes - MoMA
Split between two segments (“Paradise” and “Paradise Lost”), Tabu is a remarkable journey through both Portugal's colonial past in Africa and a present ...
Tabu. 2012. Portugal/France/Germany/Brazil. Directed by Miguel Gomes. Screenplay by Gomes, Mariana Ricardo. With Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira, Henrique Espírito Santo, Carloto Cotta, Isabel Cardoso, Ivo Müller, Manuel Mesquita. DCP. In Portuguese; English subtitles. 118 min. Miguel Gomes further deconstructs cinematic forms in what is, paradoxically, his most lyrical effort. Split between two segments (“Paradise” and “Paradise Lost”), Tabu is a remarkable journey through both Portugal’s colonial past in Africa and a present socioeconomic reality marked by bankruptcy and foreign financial intervention. Through the life of a middle-aged woman and an African housemaid, and the death of a mysterious and eccentric neighbor, Tabu (inspired by F. W. Murnau’s silent romanticism) tells the story of a forbidden love in Mozambique that jump-started António de Oliveira Salazar’s colonial war. Shot in beautiful black and white by Rui Poças, this haunting work is considered by many to be Gomes’s most poignant film.
4. Watch Tabu (2012) on MUBI
Miguel Gomes's dazzling two-pronged tribute to old age, memory, and classic cinema is a bewitching, often funny journey with an atmosphere all its own.
A temperamental old woman, her Cape Verdean maid and a neighbor devoted to social causes live on the same apartment building in Lisbon. When the old lady dies, the other two learn of an episode from her past: a tale of love and crime set in an Africa straight from the world of adventure films.
5. Tabu (2012) - ErikLundegaard.com - Movie Review
Feb 17, 2013 · A story of lost love and ghosts and crocodiles on the African continent, which Pilar (Teresa Madruga) is watching in modern-day Lisbon.
WARNING: SPOILERS From the first frame I felt trapped. I watched the safari adventurer standing there in his pith helmet and moustache, slouched, torpid, and looking nothing like a safari...
6. Tabu (2012) - Seeing Things Secondhand
Jan 3, 2021 · In the past fifteen years or so, there have been a number of movies from many nations which follow this general line. One might well start ...
Dir. Miguel Gomes. Starring Ana Moreira, Carloto Cotta, Teresa Madruga I was watching Thor: The Dark World with my wife the other night, and within fifteen minutes both of us were disengaged, distu…
7. Tabu (2012) directed by Miguel Gomes • Reviews, film + cast
Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman ...
Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.
8. Tabu (2012) short film - Filmaffinity
"Tabu" is about a family of four: a father, a mother and their two daughters.The parents' relationship is in bad shape after years of letting it slide, and it ...
Genre: Drama | Synopsis: "Tabu" is about a family of four: a father, a mother and their two daughters.The parents' relationship is in bad shape after years of letting it slide, and it seems only a miracle can help get their ...
9. Tabu (2012, Miguel Gomes) – Brandon's movie memory
Feb 10, 2013 · A prologue, long first section, long second section – with only the middle part having sync sound. Bookend segments have spoken narration ...
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10. Tabu (2012) - Silent Volume
Sep 9, 2012 · Tabu is two films, linked by memory. Or maybe fantasy. The two people doing the remembering are elderly, and in one case, demented.
Tabu is two films, linked by memory. Or maybe fantasy. The two people doing the remembering are elderly, and in one case, demented; the ...
11. Miguel Gomes's Tabu - Artforum
The 1931 Tabu is an exotic romance, at once naturalistic and imaginary, set in a lost realm; shot silent in the South Pacific, it was released with synchronized ...
Still from Miguel Gomes’s Tabu, 2012, 16 mm and 35 mm, black-and-white, sound, 118 minutes. Left: Young Ventura (Carlota Cotta). Every landscape is located nowhere. —Fernando Pessoa, The Book of…
12. Tabu 2012, directed by Miguel Gomes | Film review - TimeOut
Sep 5, 2012 · Portuguese director Miguel Gomes's 'Tabu' takes its title from F W Murnau's 1931 swansong, and more besides: both pictures are divided into ...
Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’s ‘Tabu’ takes its title from F W Murnau’s 1931 swansong, and more besides: both pictures are divided into two chapters, one se
13. “Tabu” and Its Defiant Insights | The New Yorker
Dec 26, 2012 · Tabu,” directed by Miguel Gomes, is one of the most original and inventive—as well as trenchantly political and painfully romantic—movies of ...
The Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’s third feature, “Tabu,” which opened Wednesday at Film Forum (I’ve got a capsule review of it in the magazine this week), is one of the most original and inventive—as well as trenchantly political and painfully romantic—movies of recent years. It’s a film in a rare genre: its plot is so adroitly and sensitively imagined and realized that a mere telling of the things that take place would suffice to reveal the depth of the director’s imaginative discernment—his ample and nuanced vision of the extraordinary elements and implications of ordinary lives. But it’s also realized with a casually audacious sense of cinematic form even as it ignores conventional wisdom regarding cinematic politics.
14. Film of the week: Tabu | Sight & Sound - BFI
Nov 27, 2014 · – but also tease out its many thematic implications, yet that ... film history (February 2012). Review: Our Beloved Month of August. A ...
The past is indeed a foreign country in this extraordinary third feature from Portugal’s Miguel Gomes, which traces a unique filmic form to tell a story about vicarious living and bitter experience.
15. Tabu Reviews - Metacritic
Written By · 2012 · Not Rated · Adopt Films · 1 h 58 m.
A restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbor's maid to find a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in Africa.
16. Tabu (2012) - flickfeast
Feb 18, 2012 · The poetic love story is intelligently constructed, the three parts of the film are worlds apart but all have an underlying consistent theme ...
Many films have been described as love letters to cinema recently, The Artist and Hugo (2011) both garnering critical and commercial success for being such. Miguel Gomes’ latest film Tabu, the Portuguese director incidentally used to be a film critic, gloriously achieves this but in a much more subtle and poetic manner. Tabu, the name […]
17. Film review – Tabu (2012) - Cinema Autopsy
May 17, 2013 · Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes looks to an illicit love affair and his country's colonial past to explore this question. Tabu adopts many of ...
Under the veneer of civilisation, what ancient desires and impulses lie in our unconscious, waiting to surface like a crocodile patiently waiting for its opportunity to strike? Portuguese filmmaker…