Introduction/Natalia Brizuela
Natalia Brizuela, co-curator of this series, is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley.
“One of the most original and inventive—as well as trenchantly political and painfully romantic—movies of recent years.”—Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Like the stylized F. W. Murnau film with which it shares a name, Tabu is split in two. Half is set in a distant “paradise” and relates a tale of taboo romance. The other half focuses on a triangle of women of various ages and backgrounds. The film shifts from modern-day Lisbon to a Portuguese colony in Africa in the 1960s, from life lived to life remembered. The two segments are told in different styles and tones that reverberate in mysterious ways.
• Written by Gomes, Mariana Ricardo. Photographed by Rui Poças. With Teresa Madruga, Anna Moreira, Laura Soveral, Carloto Cotta. (118 mins, In Portuguese with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, From Adopt Films)
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Natalia Brizuela, co-curator of this series, is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley.
“One of the most original and inventive—as well as trenchantly political and painfully romantic—movies of recent years.”—Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Like the stylized F. W. Murnau film with which it shares a name, Tabu is split in two. Half is set in a distant “paradise” and relates a tale of taboo romance. The other half focuses on a triangle of women of various ages and backgrounds. The film shifts from modern-day Lisbon to a Portuguese colony in Africa in the 1960s, from life lived to life remembered. The two segments are told in different styles and tones that reverberate in mysterious ways.
• Written by Gomes, Mariana Ricardo. Photographed by Rui Poças. With Teresa Madruga, Anna Moreira, Laura Soveral, Carloto Cotta. (118 mins, In Portuguese with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, From Adopt Films)
Introduction/Natalia Brizuela
Natalia Brizuela, co-curator of this series, is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley.
“One of the most original and inventive—as well as trenchantly political and painfully romantic—movies of recent years.”—Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Like the stylized F. W. Murnau film with which it shares a name, Tabu is split in two. Half is set in a distant “paradise” and relates a tale of taboo romance. The other half focuses on a triangle of women of various ages and backgrounds. The film shifts from modern-day Lisbon to a Portuguese colony in Africa in the 1960s, from life lived to life remembered. The two segments are told in different styles and tones that reverberate in mysterious ways.
• Written by Gomes, Mariana Ricardo. Photographed by Rui Poças. With Teresa Madruga, Anna Moreira, Laura Soveral, Carloto Cotta. (118 mins, In Portuguese with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, From Adopt Films)
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Natalia Brizuela, co-curator of this series, is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley.
“One of the most original and inventive—as well as trenchantly political and painfully romantic—movies of recent years.”—Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Like the stylized F. W. Murnau film with which it shares a name, Tabu is split in two. Half is set in a distant “paradise” and relates a tale of taboo romance. The other half focuses on a triangle of women of various ages and backgrounds. The film shifts from modern-day Lisbon to a Portuguese colony in Africa in the 1960s, from life lived to life remembered. The two segments are told in different styles and tones that reverberate in mysterious ways.
• Written by Gomes, Mariana Ricardo. Photographed by Rui Poças. With Teresa Madruga, Anna Moreira, Laura Soveral, Carloto Cotta. (118 mins, In Portuguese with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, From Adopt Films)
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