Tabu Page #4

Synopsis: A restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbor's maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in Africa.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Miguel Gomes
Production: Adopt Films
  18 wins & 40 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
78
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
NOT RATED
Year:
2012
118 min
Website
332 Views


You'll have to ask Ms Aurora.

Is this the way to treat someone?

Can't you see your nistress needs help?

Why do you have to mind

other people's business?

Who is it, Santa?

It's Ms Pilar.

Leave, Santa.

My friens, I'm so glad you're here.

You won't believe what's happening.

They want to see me dead.

- Calm down, Ms Aurora.

I can't. You don't know a thing.

I do but nobody else does.

I don't want to go to hell.

Pilar,

I beg you to pray to Saint Anthony!

You're so kind, like no other.

He will listen to you.

I pray, but he doesn't listen to me.

And I know why.

- Ms Aurora...

You're too good to imagine

other people's crimes.

Horrors I am ashamed to confess.

I know I'm paying for them.

This black woman was sent by...

because I'm his prisoner.

Santa practices witchcraft

against all of us.

Against you too, Pilar,

because he's terrible.

But he has nothing against you.

Only against me.

Because I have blood on my hands.

My daughter is also under his spell.

I can smell the fumes in the night

but I'm unable to get up.

I am so afraid.

Pray to St Anthony, Pilar,

for me and for my daughter.

All is in your hands.

This isn't a matter of faith.

Modern science admits the possibility

of this kind of mass phenomenon.

A group of people

thinking the same thing,

together,

at the same time

can alter a situation.

It's parapsychological...

Nothing supernatural.

Assuming somebody will be there.

Lots of people are away for New Year.

Yeah, they only care

about the fireworks.

Could I have the green pen, please?

Green pen, Pilar.

Geographic dispersion is the future.

Small gatherings around the globe

at the same time.

It's the law of simultaneity.

Pilar, you gave me the yellow pen.

I need the green one.

Silly me.

My head is in the clouds.

Problems can't be solved in the clouds.

"SHAME ON THE UN"

We will now proceed...

Please lower your posters

for our minute of silence.

We ask you to light the candle

you were given

and raise it, when you

manage to light it, really high...

Pray to Saint Anthony, Pilar.

If then you ask for miracles

Death, error, all calamities,

Leprosy and demons fly,

And health succeeds infirmities.

The sea obeys and fetters break,

And lifeless limbs you do restore;

While treasures lost are found again,

When young and old your aid implore.

All dangers vanish at your prayer,

And direst need does quickly flee;

Let those who know your power proclaim,

Let Paduans say:
there are yours.

To Father, Son may glory be

And Holy Ghost eternally.

Our Father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be your name.

Your kingdom come, your will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

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