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09 March 2021

Tabu (2012)


Weirdly, I started watching this film when it was released in the U.S. in 2012 but stopped after an hour for some reason or other, so I missed the last half of this film, which is... superb. I loved this film. It's weird and atmospheric and rich and smart. Its links with the original F.W. Murnau Tabu are rather tenuous, but this, too, is a black-and-white film about colonialism. (I clearly really love black-and-white films about colonialism – Vazante, Embrace of the Serpent, Roma. I probably ought to give this some thought.)

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