Magnificent, filled with shimmering, luminescent images that evoke both paradise and paradise lost.
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08/29/06
Tabu (1931)
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Average Rating:8.2/10
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It is like a picture poem, with its sunshine and happiness in the beginning and its stormy drama in the end.
01/28/06
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04/07/05
If D.W. Griffith created the language of film, he left it up to his successors to add their own personal esthetics. On the short list of the cinema's all time greatest artists belongs the name F.W. Murnau.
03/16/04
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05/24/03
As with so many other great films, this one carries its own burden of real life sorrow.
11/03/02
The exquisite tragic ending -- conceived musically and rhythmically as a gradually decelerating diminuendo -- is one of the pinnacles of silent cinema.
01/01/00
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