Aurora, an elderly Portuguese woman and her Cap Verdean housekeeper live next door to Pilar, who has made it her aim in life to do good. Not that she receives any gratitude for her efforts - and certainly not from the notoriously mistrustful Aurora, who prefers to spend her remaining years losing her meagre savings at the tables of Estoril casino. When the old lady dies, Pilar gets on the track of an old lover. Making a film without referring to film history is unthinkable for director Miguel Gomes, and it's no coincidence that his film has the same title as Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's TABU. In his third feature film outing Gomes playfully interprets and rearranges historical events: whilst the first part of his film is in black-and-white and portrays a society wallowing in nostalgia, the second part delivers everything they long for: stirring melodrama, slapstick, juxtaposition and passion.
2012, Portugal / Germany / Brazil / France, 119 min / Portuguese / Black & White
Starring Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira, Carloto Cotta
DIRECTOR Miguel Gomes
CAST Teresa Madruga... Pilar Laura Soveral... Old Aurora Ana Moreira... Young Aurora Henrique Espírito Santo... Old Ventura Carloto Cotta... Young Ventura Isabel Muñoz Cardoso... Santa (as Isabel Cardoso) Ivo Müller Ivo Müller... Aurora's Husband Manuel Mesquita... Mário
"TABU" CELEBRATED ITS PREMIERE AT THE 62nd INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN BERLIN IN COMPETITION AND THE ALFRED-BAUER-AWARD AND THE FIPRESCI PRIZE.
Written by Miguel Gomes, Mariana Teixeira
Directed by Miguel Gomes
Producers Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar (O Som e a Fúria)
Co-producers Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade (Komplizen Film GmbH), Fabiano Gullane, Caio Gullane (Gullane Entretenimento), Thomas Ordonneau (Shellac Sud)
Associate Producer Alexander Bohr, ZDF/Arte
Cooperation Georg Steinert, Arte G.E.I.E.
Production Manager Joaquim Carvalho
Director of Photography Rui Poças, A.I.P.
Decoration Bruno Duarte
Black & White Consultant Silke Fischer
Costume Design Silvia Grabowski
Sound Vasco Pimentel
Editing Telmo Churro, Miguel Gomes
A CO-PRODUCTION WITH Komplizen Film (Germany), www.komplizenfilm.de/e/tabu.html O SOM E A FÚRIA (PORTUGAL), www.osomeafuria.com GULLANE ENTRETENIMENTO (BRAZIL), www.gullanefilmes.com.br SHELLAC SUD (FRANCE), www.shellac-altern.org ZDF/ARTE AND RTP PORTUGAL;
FUNDED BY INSTITUTE FOR CINEMA AND AUDIOVISUALS (ICA), CENTRE NATIONAL DU CINÉMA ET DE L'IMAGE ANIMÉE (CNC), FILM FUND HAMBURG SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN (FFHSH), AGÊNCIA NACIONAL PARA O CINEMA (ANCINE);
DEVELOPED WITH THE MEDIA PROGRAMME OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY.
Distribution: Real Fiction Filmverleih (www.realfictionfilme.de/) Shellac Distribution (www.shellac-altern.org)
World Distribution: The Match Factory (www.the-match-factory.de)
Awards Berlinale 2012, Competition Alfred-Bauer-Preis and FIPRESCI Prize Las Palmas International Film Festival 2012 Lady Harimaguada de Prata Silver Award and Public Award LUX Prize 2012 - Official Selection Festival Paris Cinéma - Coup de Coeur du Jury, Prix du Jury des bloggers et du web Avvantura Festival, FilmForum Zadar - Best Director Film Festival Ghent - Grand Prix for Best Film Muestra de Cine Europeo de Lanzarote - Best Film French Critics Association - Best Foreign Movie The International Cinephile Society - Best Original Screenplay Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias - Best Film
Theatrical Release Portugal, France, Brasil, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Eire, Canada, USA, Poland, Ex-Jugoslavia, Albania, Mexico, Austria, Spain, Japan, Italy, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belgium, The Netherlands, Hungary, Taiwan, CIS & Baltics, Romania, Turkey, Turkish speaking Cyprus
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DE Die alte Portugiesin Aurora und ihre kapverdische Haushälterin Santa leben Tür an Tür mit Pilar, deren Lebensinhalt es ist, Gutes zu tun. Was ihr kaum jemand dankt, schon gar nicht die notorisch misstrauische Aurora, die ihren Lebensabend damit verbringt, ihr knapp gewordenes Geld im Casino von Estoril zu verspielen. Als die alte Frau stirbt, gerät Pilar auf die Spur eines alten Liebhabers von Aurora. Filme zu machen, ohne sich auf die Filmgeschichte zu beziehen, ist für Regisseur Miguel Gomes undenkbar. Und so zitiert TABU nicht ohne Grund einen Titel von Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. Lustvoll interpretiert und rearrangiert Gomes auch in seinem dritten Spielfilm historische Motive. Zeichnet der erste Teil des Films in weichen Schwarz-Weiß-Tönen eine Gesellschaft, die in Nostalgie schwelgt, so erhält diese im zweiten Teil, wonach sie sich sehnt: aufwühlende Melodramatik, Slapstick, Kontraste, Leidenschaft.
2012, Portugal/Deutschland/Brasilien/ Frankreich - Länge 111 Min. · Format 35 mm, DCP · Schwarzweiß
Regie: Miguel Gomes Buch: Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo Kamera: Rui Poças Schnitt: Telmo Churro, Miguel Gomes Ton: Vasco Pimentel Mischung: Miguel Martins Kostüm: Silvia Grabowski Maske: Araceli Fuente Regieassistenz: Bruno Lourenço Produktionsleitung: Joaquim Carvalho Produzent: Luís Urbano Executive Producer: Luís Urbano Associate Producer: Alexander Bohr, ZDF/Arte Co-Produzenten: Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade, Fabiano Gullane, Caio Gullane, Thomas Ordonneau
DARSTELLER Pilar__ Teresa Madruga Alte Aurora__ Laura Soveral Junge Aurora__ Ana Moreira Alter Ventura__ Henrique Espírito Santo Junger Ventura__ Carloto Cotta Santa__ Isabel Cardoso Auroras Mann__ Ivo Müller Mário__ Manuel Mesquita
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