This chapter explores Miguel Gomes’s Tabu (2012) as a film that reconfigures nostalgia through a critical engagement with colonial memory. It argues that the film offers a striking example of reflective nostalgia, foregrounding the impossibility of returning to an idealised past while simultaneously evoking longing for vanished cinematic traditions. By juxtaposing contemporary Lisbon with the stylised recollections of colonial Mozambique, the film exposes the contradictions of imperial nostalgia and the fragility of personal memory. Its evocation of early cinema aesthetics—particularly through its monochrome images and silent-era intertitles—situates Tabu within a self-reflexive European art cinema tradition, one that uses form itself as a vehicle for interrogating history. The chapter demonstrates how Gomes mobilises nostalgia not as a retreat into the past but as a mode of critique that unsettles the myths of colonialism and invites audiences to reflect on cinema’s role in shaping collective memory. In this way, Tabu exemplifies how nostalgia can function both as an aesthetic strategy and as a political intervention in the context of postcolonial European cinema.