‘Tabu” is a black-and-white fever dream, and, like all dreams, its meanings are elusive. It’s opaque, maddening, often pretentious, yet the pretensions may be on purpose, to push us away from the ...

Not to be confused with F.W. Murnau’s 1931 film “Tabu: A Story of the South Seas,” although they share chapter titles and a forbidden-love theme, Miguel Gomes’ “Tabu” tells the tale of batty old ...

If you didn’t know that Portuguese writer-director Miguel Gomes wrote film criticism before he started making movies, you’d probably figure it out within the first few minutes of his 2012 drama Tabu, ...

Though “Tabu,” filmed in Tahiti in 1930 and released the following year, was planned as a collaboration between F. W. Murnau, the supremely inventive director of dramatic features (such as “Nosferatu, ...

“[One] of the year’s true incarnations of movie magic,” I wrote of Miguel Gomes‘s Tabu back when I reviewed it during this year’s New York Film Festival. Naturally, as the months have gone by (and the ...

Part realism and part fantasy, half 35mm and half 16mm, part post-colonial and part colonial, half a swooning love story and half a clear-eyed political assessment, Miguel Gomes’s Tabu functions, as ...

“Tabu,” the third film from rising Portuguese director Miguel Gomes, feels like a relic of the past and not merely because of its aesthetic nod to silent film great F.W. Murnau’s final project.Like a.

For one night only, the classic 1931 film “Tabu” comes to Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum. American documentarian Robert Flaherty (“Nanook of the North”) collaborated with the German-born filmmaker F.W.

Not to be confused with F.W. Murnau’s Oscar-winning 1931 South Seas classic, “Tabu,” Miguel Gomes’ hard-to-describe Portuguese film is really three movies in one. The first, which might be called ...

Tabu, from Portuguese director Miguel Gomes, combines political commentary with forbidden romance You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Reviews and ...

“Paradise Lost,” the first half of “Tabu,” is set in present-day Lisbon and frames its events from a decidedly modern perspective. It follows Pilar (Teresa Madruga), a retired, caring woman who tries ...

Shot in black and white on a small screen and set in an outpost of Portuguese colonial Africa in the 1960s, its characters include a ghost and a crocodile. And in the best art-house tradition, much of ...