Country: Portugal
Year: 1990
Duration: 90'
"A village situated in the Tago valley. It is Christmas. A brother and a sister, he is seventeen years old, she is ten. They tell each other a secret that has to do with their father's frequent absences, but swear not to talk about it with anyone else. This time the father isn't simply absent. Only Vicente and Clara know what is really happening. Secrets, promises, separations, waiting. The two young people lose each other in their attempt to survive the secret. Without a doubt this movie is about the midnight of childhood" (Pedro Costa).
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, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Pedro Costa.
Director of photography: Martin Schäfer.
Sound: Pedro Caldas.
Music: Igor Stravinsky, Heino Eller, Malt Johnson.
Editor: Ana Luísa Guimarães.
Cast and characters: Pedro Hestnes (Vicente), Inês de Medeiros (Clara), Nuno Ferreira (Nino), Luis Miguel Cintra, Isabel de Castro, Henrique Canto e Castro.
Production company: Trópico Filmes.
Director of photography: Martin Schäfer.
Sound: Pedro Caldas.
Music: Igor Stravinsky, Heino Eller, Malt Johnson.
Editor: Ana Luísa Guimarães.
Cast and characters: Pedro Hestnes (Vicente), Inês de Medeiros (Clara), Nuno Ferreira (Nino), Luis Miguel Cintra, Isabel de Castro, Henrique Canto e Castro.
Production company: Trópico Filmes.