12° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
European Perspectives 19994 - Portugal
CASA DE LAVA
by Pedro Costa
Country: Portugal, France
Year: 1994
Duration: 110'
At first, there is noise, desperation and abuse. Mariana wants to escape the hell she lives in. She reaches out her hand to Leão, a dying man. Mariana, full of life, thinks that maybe the two of them can escape hell together. She believes that she is bringing the dead man back to the world of the living. Seven days and nights, she realizes her mistake... She brought a living man amongst the dead.
Biography
film director
Pedro Costa
Pedro Costa (Lisbon, Portugal, 1959) abandoned his history studies to follow an editing course held by António Reis at the film school of the Conservatório Nacional. In 1989 he made his first feature film, O Sangue, screened at International Film Critics Week at Venice, followed by Casa de Lava. His film Ossos won the Osella d’oro at the Venice Film Festival in 1997 and in 2000 No Quarto da Vanda received the Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival. In 2001 he made the documentary Où gît votre sourire enfoui? and in the following years his films Juventude em Marcha and Ne change rien participated at Cannes and were also presented at the Torino Film Festival. Vitalina Varela received the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Cartas a Júlia (cm, 1987), É Tudo Invenção Nossa (cm, 1984), O Sangue (1989), Casa de Lava (1994), Ossos (1997), No Quarto da Vanda (2000), Danièle Huillet et Jean-Marie Straub cinéastes (doc., tv, 2001), Où gît votre sourire enfoui? (doc., 2001), 6 bagatelas (cm, 2003), Juventude em Marcha (2006), O Estado do Mundo (ep. Tarrafal, cm, 2007), Digital Sam In Sam Saek 2007: Memories (ep. The Rabbit Hunters, cm, 2007), Ne change rien (doc., 2009), Our Man (cm, 2010), Centro Historico (ep. Sweet Exorcist, cm. 2012), Cavalo Dinheiro (2014), Vitalina Varela (2019).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, sceneggiatura e dialoghi: Pedro Costa.
Director of photography: Emmanuel Machuel.
Art director: Maria José Branco.
Editor: Dominique Auvray.
Music: Raul Andrade, Paul Hindemit.
Cast and characters: Inês de Medeiros (Mariana), lsaach de Bankolé (Leão), Edith Scob (Edite), Pedro Hestnes (V), Raul Andrade (violinista), Christiano Andrade Alves (Tano).
Production company: Madragoa Filmes, Av. D. Manuel I, 4, 2890, Alcochete, Portugal, tel. +35112342225, fax +35112342202; Gemini Film, 14 rue de la Cossonnerie, 75001 Paris, France, tel. +33140390375, fax +33142331213; Pandora Films (Germany).
Foreign sales agent: Fortissimo Film Sales, Droogbak 4C, 1013 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands, tel. +31206273215, fax +31206261155
Director of photography: Emmanuel Machuel.
Art director: Maria José Branco.
Editor: Dominique Auvray.
Music: Raul Andrade, Paul Hindemit.
Cast and characters: Inês de Medeiros (Mariana), lsaach de Bankolé (Leão), Edith Scob (Edite), Pedro Hestnes (V), Raul Andrade (violinista), Christiano Andrade Alves (Tano).
Production company: Madragoa Filmes, Av. D. Manuel I, 4, 2890, Alcochete, Portugal, tel. +35112342225, fax +35112342202; Gemini Film, 14 rue de la Cossonnerie, 75001 Paris, France, tel. +33140390375, fax +33142331213; Pandora Films (Germany).
Foreign sales agent: Fortissimo Film Sales, Droogbak 4C, 1013 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands, tel. +31206273215, fax +31206261155
