Tabu (2012 film)

Tabu is a 2012 Portuguese independent drama film in the style of a blackandwhite film directed by Miguel Gomes, the title of which references F. W. Murnaus silent film of the same name, Tabu.

A narrator, Miguel Gomes himself, reads in voice over a poetic and philosophical text that invokes a legend in which the Creator orders, but the heart commands the suicide of an intrepid explorer who, somewhere in Africa, long ago, plunges into a turbid river after a frustrated love affair and is devoured by a crocodile. Many swear they have seen a beautiful woman and a sad crocodile on the riverbank and that the two share a mysterious empathy.Three disparate women dwell in an old building in Lisbon. Aurora, an octogenarian living off her pension, eccentric, talkative and superstitious, seeming more dead than alive, and Santa, her housemaid from Cape Verde, live at the same apartment. Santa is semiliterate, but proficient in the divinatory art of voodoo. Pilar, their neighbor and friend, a Catholic middleaged woman, and militant social benefactor, involves herself in their psychodramas. ........

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