talkan katliamı VITALINA VARELA Director Q&A | TIFF 2019
The latest from Portuguese auteur Pedro Costa (Colossal Youth) refracts and expands an episode from his previous feature Horse Money, in which a Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life. Portuguese auteur Pedro Costa returns to the Festival with another haunting portrait of the souls that populate the tenebrous tenements, alleys, and forests of Fontainhas, the now-vanished Lisbon neighbourhood that he first began chronicling over two decades ago with the masterful trilogy of Ossos, In Vanda's Room, and Colossal Youth. Vitalina Varela takes its title from the name of its lead actress, a Cape Verdean woman who, as per usual with Costa's non-professional actors, plays a fictionalized version of herself. Vitalina first appeared in an episode in the director's previous film, Horse Money (Wavelengths 2015), wherein she recounted how her husband had left thei...
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