PORTUGAL · 2012

Tabu

Miguel Gomes
past trauma neighborly relationships religious devotion gambling addiction colonial history
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Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.

Year2012
CountryPortugal
DirectorMiguel Gomes
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