O Sangue
Four by Pedro Costa
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1h 39m
Directed by Pedro Costa | 95 mins | 1989
Shot when he was 29, Costa’s first feature is a story of two brothers forced to go on the lam after their father’s death. Shot in shimmering black and white, and developing an air of sumptuous fairy-tale enchantment, it stands alone in his oeuvre, worlds apart from the austerity of his haunting later works.
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Casa de Lava
Directed by Pedro Costa | 105 mins | 1994
Marking the beginning of Costa’s long artistic engagement with and commitment to his country’s Cape Verdean émigré community, Casa de Lava follows a Portuguese nurse and the comatose migrant worker (Isaach de Bankolé) that she’s volunteered to accompany t... -
Vitalina Varela
Directed by Pedro Costa | 124 mins | 2019
Returning once again to the immigrant communities of Lisbon’s Fontainhas neighborhood, Costa’s solemn and sumptuous Vitalina Varela gives centerstage to the eponymous subject, a Cape Verdean woman who arrives in Portugal for the funeral of the husband she... -
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
Directed by Pedro Costa | 104 mins | 2001
Costa’s tribute to two figures who have exercised a profound influence on his own work, the fiercely independent Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, observes the duo in the process of revising their film Sicilia! with the students at the French art sch...