Country: Congo
Year: 2000
Duration: 160'
Life has only given me contempts. Living in phantom houses, others had left. I was in houses that not even a witch would wanted to live in. But I also was in houses worth living in. All the houses I've lived in were clandestines. They were houses that the people abandoned, but if there was a good or important person living there, they would not demolish it. And look, it was the same, house after house. I've already payed more for the things that I've not done, than for the things I've done…
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.
Editor: Dominique Auvray.
Sound: Philippe Morel, Matthieu Imbert.
Cast: Vanda Duarte, Zita Duarte, Lena Duarte, Antonio Semedo, Paulo Nunes, Paulo GonÁalves.
Production company: Contracosta Produç?es.
Editor: Dominique Auvray.
Sound: Philippe Morel, Matthieu Imbert.
Cast: Vanda Duarte, Zita Duarte, Lena Duarte, Antonio Semedo, Paulo Nunes, Paulo GonÁalves.
Production company: Contracosta Produç?es.