Ossos
The first film in Pedro Costa’s transformative trilogy about Fontainhas, an impoverished quarter of Lisbon, Ossos is a tale of young lives torn apart by desperation. After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live. With its reserved, shadowy cinematography by Emmanuel Machuel (who collaborated with Bresson on L’argent), Ossos is a haunting look at a devastated community.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Film newly restored in high-definition, under the supervision of director Pedro Costa
- New video conversation between Costa and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Video interviews with critic João Bérnard da Costa and cinematographer Emmanuel Machuel
- New video essay by artist Jeff Wall
- Gallery of photos by Mariana Viegas
- New and improved English subtitle translation
Available In
Collector's Set
DIRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Film newly restored in high-definition, under the supervision of director Pedro Costa
- New video conversation between Costa and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Video interviews with critic João Bérnard da Costa and cinematographer Emmanuel Machuel
- New video essay by artist Jeff Wall
- Gallery of photos by Mariana Viegas
- New and improved English subtitle translation
Cast
- Vanda Duarte
- Clotilde
- Nuno Vaz
- The father
- Maria Lipkina
- Tina
- Isabel Ruth
- Eduarda
- Inês Medeiros
- Whore
- Miguel Sermão
- Clotilde's husband
- Berta Susana Teixeira
- Nurse
Credits
- Director
- Pedro Costa
- Writer
- Pedro Costa
- Producer
- Paolo Branco
- Cinematography
- Emmanuel Machuel
- Costume design
- Isabel Favila
- Production design
- Zé Branco
- Sound
- Henri Maikoff
- Sound
- Gérard Rousseau
- Editing
- Jackie Bastide
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