Tabu
by F.W. Murnau
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Actor: Ah Fong, Anne Chevalier, Bill Bambridge, Hitu, MatahiDirector: F.W. Murnau
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Floyd Crosby
Cinematographer: Robert J. Flaherty
Producer: Robert J. Flaherty
Writer: Robert J. Flaherty
Producer: F.W. Murnau
Writer: F.W. Murnau
Editor: Arthur A. Brooks
Producer: David Flaherty
Writer: Edgar G. Ulmer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Silent
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-03
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Tabu
Movie Review: A tabu is upon us!
Summary: 5 Stars
If there' s something clear along the history is the absolute happiness of two beings profoundly in love is only an utopia. And its only fulfillment seems to be reserved to fairy tales.
Murnau `s greatness talent consisted in to create supreme milestone films, since the optic of the German Expressionism as a true kaleidoscopic magician. Since his monumental Nosferatu, Sunrise, the last man or Tartuffe. In every one of these works the enormous trace of his genius is present.
In this time, the initial collaboration with Robert Flaherty and late conceptual differences were not obstacle to make this outstanding masterpiece, where the taboo is present as a dark cloud that hovers and permeates all the environment. In the Southern overseas, two young lovers have fallen in love, before a statement has been dictated. She has been designed as the chosen one among all the women. And those imposition must be obeyed. Because if not anyone who intends to get across this imposition will find the death. She has become untouchable by the divine majesties. Of course there are surreptitious signals that are closely linked with political issues. The film dates from 1931 and so you don't have to analyze so much to realize what's going on the script. Taboo means verboten; and represents the imposition of the rules upon the human desire, individual achievements and ambitions.
The paradise lasts until they decide to escape from this distorted state of things, in pursuit of their happiness But the second chapter; The lost paradise is a brutal denounce about the other side of the coin, the voracity, greed and sense of the opportunity when this young boy, an enviable diver can get all the pearls he wants without knowing the value of the money, that eventually will become his final perdition at the tragic and decisive moment, that will ignite with all its powerful design the force of the law.
After you watch this monumental work, there will be a weird sensation of bitterness and awfulness. The taboo is like a big eye, foreseeing 1984. The power of ancestral rituals, blended with our modern customs is simply unbearable for them and the moon will spread its traces on the farewell sea.
Summary of Tabu
TABU - DVD MovieConceived by two master filmmakers, but essentially made by only one, Tabu is the last great silent film (released four years into the talkie era). Few classics have had a more fraught history, starting with the dicey notion of combining the radically different approaches of documentarist Robert Flaherty and supernaturalist F.W. Murnau. After selecting the South Seas locations, collaborating on the story, and doing some preliminary photography, Flaherty withdrew, leaving Murnau to realize this tale of forbidden love and implacable retribution in an earthly paradise. The results, ravishing to behold, complete a spiritual trilogy begun with Nosferatu (1921-22) and Sunrise (1927), Murnau's other films of young couples drawn asunder by phantoms. Floyd Crosby won an Academy Award® for his cinematography. The director himself was killed in a car wreck just before his film was released. All the more tragic that Murnau's original, uncut version was never seen till Milestone Film & Video's restoration in 1990. --Richard T. Jameson
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