Tabu (2012)
Country: PORT/GER/BRA/FR
Technical: bw 1.37:1
Director: Miguel Gomes
Cast: Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira, Carloto Cotta
Synopsis:
A woman living in a Lisbon apartment block becomes acquainted with the chaotic present and turbulent past of one of her older neighbours, who years previously lived a life of privilege and passion on an African tea plantation.
Review:
A curious film, with its two-part structure, monochrome palette and dialogue-free, voiceover narrated second half (unlike a true silent film, all the other sound cues are present and correct). Its deliberate pace and distancing effects give it an almost anthropological attitude towards its characters, one enhanced by the periodic preoccupation with a baby crocodile, although that also provides a link with the more sorcerous, metaphysical elements of the screenplay, as exemplified by the prologue. Whatever your view of it, it's probably quite unlike anything you've seen before.
Country: PORT/GER/BRA/FR
Technical: bw 1.37:1
Director: Miguel Gomes
Cast: Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira, Carloto Cotta
Synopsis:
A woman living in a Lisbon apartment block becomes acquainted with the chaotic present and turbulent past of one of her older neighbours, who years previously lived a life of privilege and passion on an African tea plantation.
Review:
A curious film, with its two-part structure, monochrome palette and dialogue-free, voiceover narrated second half (unlike a true silent film, all the other sound cues are present and correct). Its deliberate pace and distancing effects give it an almost anthropological attitude towards its characters, one enhanced by the periodic preoccupation with a baby crocodile, although that also provides a link with the more sorcerous, metaphysical elements of the screenplay, as exemplified by the prologue. Whatever your view of it, it's probably quite unlike anything you've seen before.
Country: PORT/GER/BRA/FR
Technical: bw 1.37:1
Director: Miguel Gomes
Cast: Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira, Carloto Cotta
Synopsis:
A woman living in a Lisbon apartment block becomes acquainted with the chaotic present and turbulent past of one of her older neighbours, who years previously lived a life of privilege and passion on an African tea plantation.
Review:
A curious film, with its two-part structure, monochrome palette and dialogue-free, voiceover narrated second half (unlike a true silent film, all the other sound cues are present and correct). Its deliberate pace and distancing effects give it an almost anthropological attitude towards its characters, one enhanced by the periodic preoccupation with a baby crocodile, although that also provides a link with the more sorcerous, metaphysical elements of the screenplay, as exemplified by the prologue. Whatever your view of it, it's probably quite unlike anything you've seen before.