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director Pedro Costa
screenplay Pedro Costa
country Portugal
year 2006
duration 154 minutes
media 35mm
color Color
language OmeU
producer Francisco Villa-Lobos
production "Contracosta Produ??es, Lda. Tv. Da Pereira, N.16A, Porta B 1170 ? 313 Lisabonne Portugal Fon: +35 121 886 0393 geral@contracosta.pt www.contracosta.pt"
cinematography Pedro Costa, Leonardo Sim?se
sound Olivier Blanc
editor Pedro Marques
music Olivier Blanc
distribution
"Memento Films International
tel : + 33 1 48 00 09 48
fax : + 33 1 47 70 21 22
sales@memento-films.com"
Ventura, a Cape Verdean laborer living in the outskirts of Lisbon, is suddenly abandoned by his wife Clotilde. Ventura feels lost between the dilapidated old quarter where he spent the last 34 years and his new lodgings in a recently-built lowcost housing complex. All the young poor souls he meets seem to become his own children.
biography
Pedro Costa was born in Lisbon and studied at the Escola Superior de Cinema. He made his feature directorial debut with The Blood, which played at the Festival in 1990. His subsequent features include Casa de Lava (94), Bones (97), In Vanda's Room (00) and O? g?t votre sourire enfoui? (co-director, 01). Colossal Youth (06) is his most recent film.
filmography
"1987 Cartas a J?lia (short)
1990 O Sangue
1994 Casa de Lava
1997 Ossos
2000 No Quarto da Vanda
2001 O? g?t votre Sourire enfoui?
2002 6 Bagatelas (short)
2003 The End of a Love Affair (short)
2006 Juventude em Marcha
2006 Ne Change Rien"
