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Tabu

2012

In modern Lisbon, a pious woman watches over her tempestuous, gambling-addicted elderly neighbor — and after the old woman's death, a long-buried tale emerges of her youthful, forbidden love affair on a colonial African plantation. Miguel Gomes's beguiling, black-and-white reverie.

Why it’s here

Miguel Gomes's Portuguese film linking Lisbon memory and Portuguese colonial history.