Tabú + (Casi) Integral De Los Cortos De Miguel Gomes [DVD]

Miguel Gomes (Lisbon, 1972) is one of the best contemporary filmmakers. His long experience as a critic before dedicating himself to filmmaking - first as the author of a series of short films that made him known at the most important festivals in the world, and then as the author of three very influential feature films - means that in his films There are some of the most stimulating reflections on the greatness and weaknesses of cinema, while turning them into symbolic meditations on the present and future of the medium. His films take up some of the key traditions of cinema of all time (silent cinema, musicals, ethnographic documentaries, new waves) that Gomes reworks in the light of his own world, full of fantasy and humor, with an inclination constant to establish strong contrasts between the lost time of origins, that of childhood with its often cruel games, and the serene time of broken illusions and the disappointments of maturity. That is why it has been said that his first feature film looks like a cross between Alicia en el País de las Maravillas and Jacques Rivette, and that is why he states that his favorite film in the history of cinema is The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939). . With this edition of Gomes' latest acclaimed feature film, Tabú, as well as the almost complete of his short films (with the exception of the first, Entretanto, which is not included due to a music rights problem), both complemented by an in-depth interview, an hour long, in which the director gives some of the keys to his world and his personality.