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Tabu
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Producer
- Screenwriter
- Director of photography
- Main CastTeresa Madruga (Pilar), Thom Straumann (Aurora), Laura Soveral (yount Aurora), Ana Moreira (Gian Luca Ventura), Henrique Esírito Santo (young Gian Luca Ventura)
- Editor (Cut)
- Original Score
Director's comment
TABU is a film about the passage of time, about things that disappear and can only exist as memory, phantasmagoria, imagery − or as cinema, which summons and congregates all that. There is a massive ellipsis in the film, we go back fifty years. We go from the time of old age to youth, from the time of hangover and guilt to the time of excesses, from a post-colonial society to the time of colonialism. It’s a film about things that are extinguished: a person who dies, an extinguished society, a time that can only exist in the memory of those who lived it. We also wanted to connect this to an extinct cinema. We chose to shoot the film in black and white, which is also on the verge of extinction − 35mm for the contemporary section, 16mm for the African section. I’m sometimes asked why the first part is not in colour, according to the (somewhat absurd) convention that the past is in black and white and the present in colour. If the second part of the film fits what is conventionally known as a ‘period piece’, I’m not sure the first part isn’t as much of a ‘period piece’ ...Cast & Crew
Miguel GomesLuís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar
Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo
Rui Poças
Teresa Madruga (Pilar), Thom Straumann (Aurora), Laura Soveral (yount Aurora), Ana Moreira (Gian Luca Ventura), Henrique Esírito Santo (young Gian Luca Ventura)
Telmo Churro, Miguel Gomes
Vasco Pimentel
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