Tabu (1931)
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Reviews Counted: 8 Fresh: 8 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.2/10
Runtime: 84 mins
Synopsis: Filmed in Tahiti, the story of a fisherman who falls in love with a beguiling woman who has been forbidden to men. German Expressionist director F.W. Murnau's last film is one of the most gorgeous black & white films ever made. Pioneering documentarian Robert Flaherty (NANOOK OF THE NORTH)... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Anna Chevalier, Matahi
Director: F.W. Murnau, Robert J. Flaherty
Composer: Hugo Riesenfeld, Frederic Chopin, Bedrich Smetana
Composer: Hugo Riesenfeld, Frederic Chopin, Bedrich Smetana
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Magnificent, filled with shimmering, luminescent images that evoke both paradise and paradise lost.
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08/29/06
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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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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