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Tabu is a portugais film of genre Drama directed by Miguel Gomes released in USA on 26 december 2012 with Teresa Madruga

Tabu (2012)

Tabu
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Released in USA 26 december 2012
Length 1h50
Directed by
OriginPortugal
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating72% 3.645683.645683.645683.645683.64568

Tabu is a 2012 Portuguese independent drama film in the style of a black-and-white film directed by Miguel Gomes, the title of which references F. W. Murnau's silent film of the same name, Tabu.

The film competed at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Alfred Bauer Award (Silver Bear for a feature film that opens new perspectives) and The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) prizes. Sight & Sound film magazine listed it at #2 on its list of best films of 2012.

Tabu is the Portuguese film with the widest international distribution as of 2012 and the fifth from Portugal to be commercially released in New York (Film Forum, December 2012), after The Art of Amalia by Bruno de Almeida (2000, Quad Cinema), O Fantasma by João Pedro Rodrigues (2003, IFC Center) and, in 2011, The Strange Case of Angelica by Manoel de Oliveira (IFC Center) and Mists by Ricardo Costa (Quad Cinema).

Synopsis

The film takes place shortly before the Portuguese Colonial War began.

Actors

Teresa Madruga

(Pilar)
Ana Moreira

(Young Aurora)
Ivo Müller

(Aurora's Husband)
Miguel Gomes

(Narrator (voice))
Carloto Cotta

(Young Gian Luca Ventura)
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