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Tabu [Blu-ray]
(Miguel Gomes, 2012)
Review by Gary Tooze
Production: Theatrical: O Som e a Fúria Video: New Wave Cinema
Disc: Region: 'B' (as verified by the Momitsu region FREE Blu-ray player) Runtime: 1:58:03.583 Disc Size: 23,558,622,586 bytes Feature Size: 19,827,025,920 bytes Video Bitrate: 17.49 Mbps Chapters: 18 Case: Standard Blu-ray case Release date: January 14th, 2013
Video: Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 Resolution: 1080p / 23.976 fps Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio Portuguese 1869 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1869 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit) LPCM Audio Portuguese 1536 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Subtitles: English, none
Extras:
• A Christmas Inventory (21:29) • Trailer (1:58)
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Description: After
Our Beloved Month of August, Miguel Gomes returns
with Tabu, an engaging, provocative and poetic film
set both in Portugal and in an un-named African location.
The Film: An impressionistic enterprise, ‘Tabu’ is more satisfying in its latter half: the aestheticised lethargy of the first part – though frequently lovely – is less successful than the second part’s gorgeously realised yet carefully ironic melodrama. Recalled across a great distance of time, space and experience, this narrated tale enriches the film’s first half while setting up challenges of its own: at once heroic and shabby, the love affair’s self-romanticising tendency is of a piece with Gomes’s lyrical yet distanced technique. Evoking work as disparate as that of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Guy Maddin and Claire Denis – with a dash of ‘The Artist’ thrown in – ‘Tabu’ is a tantalising trip. Excerpt from TimeOut located HEREEven more than in "Our Beloved Month of August," Miguel Gomes begins "Tabu" in a seemingly ridiculous vein and unexpectedly shifts to something surprisingly enriching and poetic. The first part is a maddeningly artificial story of an elderly woman and her kind neighbor in Lisbon, and then, jumping back in time and place to Africa, the film becomes the story of an illicit love told via voiceover and ambient sound rather than dialogue. Excerpt from MRQE located HERE
Image : NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc. Tabu is released on Blu-ray from New Wave Cinema in the UK. The black and white 1.33:1 image quality varies between the sharp-looking present and the grain-rich past in Mozambique. This is only single-layered and isn't perfect but can look quite fetching in 1080P. Contrast exhibits healthy, rich black levels, there is no moiring and detail is impressive in close-ups. There is some depth in the present and the texture of the opposing period is very appealing. It draws an easily identifiable dividing line between the two and establishes aura very well. This Blu-ray has a clean, consistent feel and it definitely advances beyond SD in several key areas.
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Audio :Audio defaults to a linear PCM 2.0 channel stereo track at 1536 kbps and there is also a DTS-HD Master 5.1 surround at 1869 kbps with a few rear channel separations. Nothing is overly remarkable and any scattered dialogue seems vérité. There is no demonstrative depth and there are optional English subtitles. My Momitsu has identified it as being a region 'B'-locked.
Extras : Supplements included two Gomes shorts - A Christmas Inventory from 2000 runs about 20 minutes in Portuguese with English subtitles and 31 Means Trouble (also referred to as '31') runs 28-minutes and has a tennis-background motif. There is also a 2-minute trailer.
BOTTOM LINE: Gary Tooze January 8th, 2013
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