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Letters from Fontainhas, three films by Pedro Costa

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Letters from Fontainhas

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three films by Pedro Costa

Portuguese dialogue; subtitled in English"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

[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

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