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Vitalina Varela

Four by Pedro Costa • 2h 4m

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 hasn’t seen in decades, there beginning to establish a new life.

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