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Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Directed by
F. W. Murnau
Approved
1931
86m
Adventure
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Drama
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7.4
92%
76%
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On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.
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Cast of Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Matahi
The Boy
Anne Chevalier
The Girl (as Reri)
Bill Bambridge
The Policeman (as Jean)
Hitu
The Old Warrior
Jules
The Captain (uncredited)
F. W. Murnau
Director / Writer / Producer
Robert Flaherty
Writer / Producer
Edgar G. Ulmer
Writer
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas Ratings & Reviews
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
...closer to the romantic, "exotic" escapism of movies like Bird of Paradise than the intended co-director had wanted. But it was also lovely to look at...
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
A relatively minor Murnau film, lacking the director's usual visual flair, but Murnau's mastery of film as a visual language remains on display, along with Flaherty's clear love of its island location.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Brilliantly simple lyrical film was shot on location in Tahiti.
The Nation
Alexander Bakshy
Tabu is deliberate and forced in its playfulness, cheaply melodramatic in its tragedy, and unconscionably long-winded.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
A brilliant film that deservedly won the Best Cinematography Oscar.
TV Guide
Magnificent, filled with shimmering, luminescent images that evoke both paradise and paradise lost.
New York Times
Mordaunt Hall
It is like a picture poem, with its sunshine and happiness in the beginning and its stormy drama in the end.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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.
PopMatters
John G. Nettles
As with so many other great films, this one carries its own burden of real life sorrow.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The exquisite tragic ending -- conceived musically and rhythmically as a gradually decelerating diminuendo -- is one of the pinnacles of silent cinema.
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