1991-2000DocumentaryDramaPedro CostaPortugal

Pedro Costa – No Quarto da Vanda AKA In Vanda’s Room (2000)

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For the extraordinarily beautiful second film in his Fontainhas trilogy, Pedro Costa jettisoned his earlier films’ larger crews to burrow even deeper into the Lisbon ghetto and the lives of its desperate inhabitants. With the intimate feel of a documentary and the texture of a Vermeer painting, In Vanda’s Room takes an unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but is centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte. Costa presents the daily routines of Vanda and her neighbors with disarming matter-of-factness, and through his camera, individuals whom many would deem disposable become vivid and vital. This was Costa’s first use of digital video, and the evocative images he created remain some of the medium’s most astonishing.—The Criterion Collection

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Pedro Costa’s longest and most challenging film (2000) is also the one in which he most fully discovers his present method (shooting beautifully composed tableaux without camera movement in digital video, with scripted dialogue) and subject matter (immigrants from Cape Verde and junkies, all nonprofessional actors playing themselves, inhabiting hovels in a Lisbon slum that are audibly and visibly being razed). The title heroine, who lives with her mother and sister, spends most of her time getting stoned or selling vegetables door-to-door, and we get to know the daily rituals of many of her neighbors equally well. Sandwiched between Costa’s Bones (1997) and Colossal Youth (2006), which feature some of the same people and settings, as well as comparably exquisite lighting and employment of color, this is passionate and demanding chamber cinema of a very special kind. In Portuguese with subtitles. 178 min. – Jonathan Rosenbaum

2.44GB | 2h 50mn | 706×529 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/77A8FB7DF0CC7C0/No.Quarto.da.Vanda.2000.Criterion.DVDRip.x264.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/67AA7A2ED85BD15/No.Quarto.da.Vanda.2000.Criterion.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/76D9202728DEAF3/No.Quarto.da.Vanda.2000.Criterion.DVDRip.x264.part3.rar

Language:Portuguese
Subtitles:English

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