Tabu
“Aurora had a farm in Africa, at the foot of Mount Tabu…”
DramaRomance
Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.
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A hauntingly beautiful, elegiac drama that drifts through memory and regret. It feels like a faded photograph, steeped in the melancholic atmosphere of Portugal and the lingering shadows of its colonial past.
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crocodilelisbonportugalplantationhaunted by the pastneighbor neighbor relationshipeast africaportuguese colonialism
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