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Our Beloved Month of August
Music, Romance - 2008
7.0
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In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity...
Director:
Our Beloved Month of August
Tabu
(2012)
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.
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Details

Rated:
N/A
Runtime:
147 min
Release date:
21 Aug 2008
Country:
PT, FR
Languages:
Portuguese
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
12 wins & 3 nominations.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
As dazzling feats of narrative acrobatics go, this ingeniously self-reflexive second feature from maverick writer-director Miguel Gomes stands in a league of its own.
– David Jenkins,
Time Out,
2 Feb 2010
fresh:
Transparently a movie about a group of filmmakers who attempt to possess a particular location, Our Beloved Month relaxes into a meditation on the mysteries of place, personality, and process.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
31 Aug 2010
fresh:
The promise on display is impressive; consider the film a calling card from someone to keep a very close eye on.
– David Fear,
Time Out New York,
1 Sep 2010
rotten:
The whole turns out to be less than the sum of its elegantly constructed and cleverly uncategorizable parts.
– Mike Hale,
New York Times,
3 Sep 2010
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