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TABU | TABOU
Miguel Gomes | Portugal, Germany, Brazil, France | 2012 | 118min | Original version Portuguese, French subtitles
FNC
Box office15 oct. 19:00Session 129
Cineplex Odéon Quartier Latin salle A
350 Rue Émery Métro Berri-UQAM
FNC
Box office17 oct. 15:00Session 174
Cineplex Odéon Quartier Latin salle A
350 Rue Émery Métro Berri-UQAM
Synopsis :
ALFRED BAUER PRIZE AT BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2012
Gomes’ third film is a storybook fantasy, a romantic journey back in time that centres on a compelling central character: the elderly Aurora. Flanked by her Cape Verdean maid and Pilar, her fifty-something neighbour, Aurora exhibits mildly theatrical dementia as she sees ghosts, calls for her “crocodile” and throws childish tantrums. As Aurora reaches her final days, Pilar finds out something about the old woman’s past: a love affair of grand proportions that reveals an altogether different Aurora. Staged in two movements—present-day Portugal and the Africa of 60 years past—Tabu unfolds as a hypnotic journey. Gomes’ use of luxuriant black-and-white in the African segments is a nod to silent film, while his choice of title and his heroine’s first name pays tribute to the great German filmmaker F. W. Murnau. Freely mixing surrealism with humour and melodrama, he weaves a luminous, dreamlike world where Aurora’s slightest glance is more telling than any word. Tabu is ultimately an ode to women, gazed at, admired and filmed with love throughout the course of a breathtaking odyssey.
Gomes’ third film is a storybook fantasy, a romantic journey back in time that centres on a compelling central character: the elderly Aurora. Flanked by her Cape Verdean maid and Pilar, her fifty-something neighbour, Aurora exhibits mildly theatrical dementia as she sees ghosts, calls for her “crocodile” and throws childish tantrums. As Aurora reaches her final days, Pilar finds out something about the old woman’s past: a love affair of grand proportions that reveals an altogether different Aurora. Staged in two movements—present-day Portugal and the Africa of 60 years past—Tabu unfolds as a hypnotic journey. Gomes’ use of luxuriant black-and-white in the African segments is a nod to silent film, while his choice of title and his heroine’s first name pays tribute to the great German filmmaker F. W. Murnau. Freely mixing surrealism with humour and melodrama, he weaves a luminous, dreamlike world where Aurora’s slightest glance is more telling than any word. Tabu is ultimately an ode to women, gazed at, admired and filmed with love throughout the course of a breathtaking odyssey.
