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None of those scandal-mongering moments could match the sheer disorienting power of the sudden shot of a painting—Rubens’s Flight into Egypt, hanging in Lisbon’s Museu Calouste Gulbenkian—in Pedro Costa’s Juventude em marcha (Colossal Youth). Interpolated late into the film’s seemingly endless succession of conversations declaimed in dim, decrepit rooms, the startling appearance of this Dutch Baroque masterpiece in its hushed, luxe setting packed a visual and tonal wallop—shot ...
TRYING TO RATIONALIZE Pedro Costa’s Horse Money in terms of a synopsis—the film is mostly an achronological assembly of claustrophobic tableaux with one or two speaking characters—is ultimately a fool’s game, but connecting it to recent Portuguese history is a necessity. The April 25, 1974, coup known today as the Carnation Revolution, which was led by the left-wing Armed Forces Movement (MFA) and ended the long-standing Estado Novo dictatorship, took place when Costa was in his ...
Pedro Costa made three films—Ossos [1997], In Vanda’s Room [2000], and Colossal Youth [2006]—concerning the fate of a group of marginalized drug addicts in a slum in Lisbon. In Vanda’s Room bulldozers can be heard throughout the film demolishing the neighborhood.
Almost six decades later, movie-brat bricoleur Xavier Dolan repeated Tashlin’s trick in Mommy (2014). The twentysomething Québécois director forever ups the aesthetic ante on the elders whose work he marauds—Dolan compulsively reiterated Wong Kar-wai’s romantic use of slurred motion to redundant effect in Heartbeats (2010)—so it is no surprise that the director’s “homage to the square” in Mommy, which is shot in a 1:1 ratio, proved more literal and strict than any previous ...
Nick Pinkerton on Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela (2019) By Nick Pinkerton. February 20, 2020 7:35 pm. Film.
In that sense, Moi, un noir anticipates the long-take improvisations of Warhol films such as Poor Little Rich Girl (1965), his portrait of Edie Sedgwick at home, and of Pedro Costa’s extraordinary situational documentary No quarto da Vanda (In Vanda’s Room, 2000), wherein Lisbon slum dwellers dramatize their condition or at least play themselves talking before the camera.
Oct 19, 2023 · Costa Beatriz Soares Costanza Candeloro Courtnie Wolfgang Craig Robertson Cressida Brown cris cherk Cristiana De Marchi Cristiano Raimondi Cristiano Tassinari Cristina Ferrigno Cristina Kristal Rizzo Cristina O. Nava Crystal Bennes Cuauhtemoc Medina Cuong Minh Ba Pham Cynthia Alberto Cynthia gonzález garcía Cynthia Igbokwe Daaf Borren Daan ...
WILL-O’-THE-WISP (João Pedro Rodrigues) A racially risky, raunchy Portuguese musical about class and pyromania that will light you on fire. Facials! Fake dicks! A real arty head-scratcher of a film that makes Titane seem tame. João Pedro Rodrigues, Fogo-Fátuo (Will-o’-the-Wisp), 2022, 4K video, color, sound, 67 minutes. From left ...
A retrospective of João Pedro Rodrigues’s films will be on view at the Harvard Film Archive in Cambridge, MA, Oct. 1–3 and at BAMcinématek in Brooklyn, NY, Oct. 6–8. Dennis Lim is a New York–based critic and the editor of Moving Image Source.
Feb 1, 2024 · The organizers of the Venice Biennale have revealed the names of the 331 artists who will be participating in the main exhibition of the event’s sixtieth iteration, slated to take place April 20–November 24.
