L’ultimo notturno del più grande regista portoghese vivente è un’allucinazione onirica di un’anima perduta del sottoproletariato represso, maltrattato e dimenticato del Paese. Con il suo cinema poetico e politico, Costa dà voce e presenza cinematografica agli emarginati.
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.
Magari tutti i film collettivi fossero così belli! Guimarães, al tempo Capitale Europea della Cultura, commissionò l’incontro di quattro visionari, Aki Kaurismäki, Pedro Costa, Victor Erice e Manoel de Oliveira. Insieme, esplorano l’anima del Portogallo con un’opera comica, caustica e malinconica.
