Movie

Tabu

1983 · 78 min

A loose, playful art-film drift through bohemian Rio, more mood and music than story, charming but willfully eccentric.

Tagline: Caetano Veloso is Lamartine Babo in Júlio Bressane's New picture
Overview: The fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine Babo and inconoclast poet and playwright Oswald de Andrade.
How it feels: Whimsical, satirical, warm and absurd. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Art, music, celebrity, friendship
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: art
music
celebrity
friendship
identity
Places: big city
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild