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Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)

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This is a sensual tale of doomed love, filmed on location in Tahiti.

Sep 3, 2002

All Critics (9) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (0) | DVD (2)

It is like a picture poem, with its sunshine and happiness in the beginning and its stormy drama in the end.

January 28, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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The exquisite tragic ending -- conceived musically and rhythmically as a gradually decelerating diminuendo -- is one of the pinnacles of silent cinema.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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Magnificent, filled with shimmering, luminescent images that evoke both paradise and paradise lost.

August 29, 2006 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
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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.

March 16, 2004 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
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As with so many other great films, this one carries its own burden of real life sorrow.

November 3, 2002 Full Review Source: PopMatters | Comment
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amazing cinematography, nice simple story

July 4, 2007
brooklynspo

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The backstory of "Tabu" is more impressive than what appears on screen. Shot in Bora Bora with a cast of "South Sea Islanders and a few half-castes and Chinese," this 1931 silent does a remarkable job of choreographing untrained natives (grass skirts and all) into a cohesive story. There are no dialogue cards and,

March 29, 2010
Eric Broome

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