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Taboo

1988 · 105 min

A slow, quietly devastating rural drama that simmers with repressed desire and leaves a lingering ache.

Overview
Story of a tragic love triangle that develops between a mother daugther and a farmhand. A good-looking widow lives alone on a farm with her teenage daughter. Their neighbor occasionally helps them in the farmwork. He would have eventually married the mother, but the daughter tries to seduce him at all costs. He becomes the lover of both women, but eventually runs away leaving the mother shattered and the daughter pregnant.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 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
  • betrayal
  • family
  • obsession
  • isolation
  • guilt
Places
  • countryside
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance5
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Andrzej Barański
Written by
Andrzej Barański
Starring
Grażyna Szapołowska, Bernadetta Machała-Krzemińska, Bronisław Pawlik, Krzysztof Gosztyła, Zofia Merle, Olaf Lubaszenko
Music
Zygmunt Konieczny
Cinematography
Krzysztof Ptak
Runtime
105 min
Country
Poland
Languages
Polish

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