Salon.com > Tabu http://www.salon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 21:51:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Pick of the week: A hypnotic tale of doomed romance set in colonial Africa http://www.salon.com/2012/12/28/pick_of_the_week_a_hypnotic_tale_of_doomed_romance_set_in_colonial_africa/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/28/pick_of_the_week_a_hypnotic_tale_of_doomed_romance_set_in_colonial_africa/#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13155858 This season’s movies have been unusually obsessed with history, and especially its less savory elements. But of all these meditations on the past, perhaps none is as peculiar or as haunting as “Tabu,” the new film from young Portuguese director Miguel Gomes. You definitely need to have patience with this movie, because it opens – after a melancholy and mysterious prologue about a 19th-century explorer, a ghost and a crocodile – as a low-key art-house drama, in black-and-white, about the intersecting lives of three elderly women in contemporary Lisbon. That in itself is refreshingly unfashionable (Gomes has said he wanted to focus on the kind of women “nobody gives a damn about”), but it takes a while for the disturbing undercurrents in their story to open the portals of memory and take us back into a tale of doomed romance in colonial Africa.

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