Title: Letters from Fontainhas three films by Pedro Costa.
Authors: Costa, Pedro; Branco, Paulo; Villa-Lobos, Francisco, 1966-; Pfäffli, Andres; Baumgartner, Karl; Duarte, Vanda; Vaz, Nuno; Lipkina, Miriya; Duarte, Zita, 1944-2000; Duarte, Lena; Moreno, António Semedao; Nunus, Paulo; Duarte, Beatriz; Sumpta, Gustavo; Cardoso, Cila; Cardoso, Isabel; Ventura; Gémini Films; Madragoa Filmes (Firm); Zentropa Productions.; Contracosta Produções; Pandora Film (Firm); Ventura Film; Films de l'Étranger; Criterion Collection (Firm)
Publisher: Criterion Collection,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Costa, Pedro; Slums Portugal Lisbon Drama.; Urban poor Portugal Lisbon Drama.; Women drug addicts Portugal Lisbon Drama.; Older men Portugal Lisbon Drama.; Cabo Verdeans Portugal Lisbon Drama.; Urban renewal Portugal Lisbon Drama.; Portuguese language Films for Portuguese speakers.; Lisbon (Portugal) Social conditions Drama.; Fontainhas (Lisbon, Portugal) Drama.
Abstract: "Portuguese director Pedro Costa has been steadily building an impressive body of work since the late eighties, and these are the three films that put him on the map: spare, painterly portraits of battered, largely immigrant lives in the slums of Fontainhas, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon. In Ossos, after a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby's safety to the troubled, deadbeat father. In Vanda's Room is centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte. In Colossal youth, many of the lost souls of Ossos and In Vanda's Room return. This time, Costa focuses on Ventura, an elderly immigrant from Cape Verde living in Lisbon."--Distributor.
Contents: [disc 1]. Ossos / Paulo Branco apresenta ; realização Pedro Costa ; uma co-produção Madragoa Filmes, Gémini Films, Zentropa Productions (1997) -- [disc 2]. No quarto da Vanda / Contracosta apresenta en co-produçao com Pandora Film e Ventura Film ; réalizado, Pedro Costa ; produtores, Francisco Villa-Lobos, Karl Baumgartner, Andres Pfaeffli (2000) -- [disc 3]. Juventude em marcha / Contracosta apresenta em co-produção com Les Films de l'Étranger .. [et al.]; réalizaçio, Pedro Costa ; produtor, Francisco Villa-Lobos (2006) -- [disc 4]. Supplements -- Booklet.