From Portugal’s greatest living filmmaker comes this dreamlike hallucination of a lost soul belonging to the country’s repressed, abused, misused and forgotten underclass. With his rivetingly poetic political cinema, Pedro Costa gives the unheard and unseen a voice and a true cinematic presence.
Luminary Pedro Costa’s unique, collaborative style of portraiture reaches a magnificent peak in this film. Among haunting chiaroscuro compositions, Vitalina Varela’s real-life stories of love, migration, and deceit take the form of bewitching incantations—and earned her Locarno’s Best Actress award!
A masterpiece about the making of a masterpiece, this crepuscular portrait of Straub-Huillet’s creative process has been described by Pedro Costa as both his first comedy and his first love story. Intimate and illuminating, it’s an indispensable lesson in filmmaking from three titans of cinema.
Drawing inspiration from Godard’s Sympathy for the Devil, Pedro Costa fashions an idiosyncratic, black and white portrait of French actor and singer Jeanne Balibar. Capturing the star in long, seductive takes, the Portuguese master eschews biography for the smoky, mystical groove of ineffability.
Wenn doch nur alle Episodenfilme so gut wären! Als Guimarães Europäische Kulturhauptstadt war, gab sie ein Treffen dieser Visionäre in Auftrag: Aki Kaurismäki, Pedro Costa, Victor Erice, und Manoel de Oliveira. Ironisch, schwermütig, neugierig und humorvoll tauchen sie ein in die Seele Portugals.
