2012 · drama · romance
Tabu (2012)
Directed by Miguel Gomes2h 0m2012
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.
Our read: Tabu (2012) (2012) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- inventive
- signature
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How Tabu feels to watch.
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