Tabu's Brilliant Look at Colonial Fantasy

Comments (0) By Nick Pinkerton Thursday, Jan 17 2013

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Gianluca is en route to a gig with a gaggle of fans.

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Bill Cosford Cinema

1111 Memorial Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146

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Region: Coral Gables/South Miami

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1130 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139

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Starring Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira, Carloto Cotta, Henrique Espírito Santo, and Isabel Muñoz Cardoso. Written and directed by Miguel Gomes. 118 minutes. Not rated. Opens Friday, January 18, at Bill Cosford Cinema (University of Miami Campus, 1111 Memorial Dr., Coral Gables; 305-284-4861; cosfordcinema.com) and Miami Beach Cinematheque (1130 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-4567; mbcinema.com).

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While making a supremely wistful film about the deceit of wistfulness, Gomes's Tabu indulges in no crocodile tears. Its upbeat tempo is set by the Madagascar group Les Surfs' '60s cover of "Be My Baby," heard in both halves of the movie, while the Phil Spector-produced Ramones rendition of Spector's own "Baby, I Love You" issues from the band in which Gianluca sits in on drums. Their single, the narration tells us, would become "a cult object for its rarity and simplicity" — a fair prediction of the future in store for Gomes's work of sophisticated primitivism, which finds aching truth in the phrase "The past is another country."