Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa (1997-2006)
4xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9/4:3 | Artwork | 424 mins | Total: 29,95 Gb
Audio: Portuguese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Art-house, Drama | Criterion Collection #508
4xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9/4:3 | Artwork | 424 mins | Total: 29,95 Gb
Audio: Portuguese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Art-house, Drama | Criterion Collection #508
One of the most important artists on the international film scene today, Portuguese director Pedro Costa has been steadily building an impressive body of work since the late eighties. And these are the three films that put him on the map: spare, painterly portraits of battered, largely immigrant lives in the slums of Fontainhas, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon. Hypnotic, controlled works, Ossos, In Vanda’s Room, and Colossal Youth confirm Costa as a provocative new cinematic poet, one who locates beauty in the most unlikely of places.
Pedro Costa´s Fontanhais trilogy is such a sprawling, richly-detailed project it inspires a seemingly endless number of comparisons. The critics (also seemingly endless in numbers) who have contributed to Criterion´s stunning boxed set offer the following reference points for Costa´s work: Robert Bresson, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Jean-Luc Godard, Yasujiro Ozu, Jacques Tourneur, King Lear, Rembrandt, Carl Dreyer, Robert Frank, Andy Warhol, and post-punk rock.
By saying that Costa´s film are "like" so many artists spanning the audiovisual spectrum, critics are, of course, saying that Costa´s films are really unlike anything else. They aren´t even like one another. Though all three features share the same setting and some of the same actors, "Ossos" (1997), "In Vanda´s Room" (2000), and "Colossal Youth" (2006) are radically different films that provide testament to an artist grasping for the proper idiom to express a deeply personal, profoundly ethical cinema.
The shared setting is so fundamental to the structure of each film, however, that they must inevitably be considered of one piece. Fontainhas is (was) a slum on the outskirts of Lisbon populated mostly by Cape Verdean immigrants and impoverished Portuguese citizens. Drug addiction is rampant and job prospects are poor. Costa first discovered Fontainhas after he shot a film in Cape Verde called "Casa de Lava" (1994.) After he finished shooting, many of the locals asked him to take back letters to friends and family in Fontainhas. He quickly became enamored of the people, the buildings and especially the sounds of the vibrant community. The boxed set could just as easily be titled "(Love) Letters (to) Fontainhas."
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Ossos (1997)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:37:52 | 7,78 Gb
Audio: Portuguese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Art-house, Drama | Criterion Collection #509
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:37:52 | 7,78 Gb
Audio: Portuguese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Art-house, Drama | Criterion Collection #509
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.
Edition Details:
• Film newly restored in high-definition, under the supervision of director Pedro Costa
• New video conversation between Costa and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin (33:05)
• Video interview with cinematographer Emmanuel Machuel (7:55)
• New video essay by artist Jeff Wall (12:59)
• Gallery of photos by Mariana Viegas
• Video interviews with critic Joao Bernard da Costa (9:20)
• New and improved English subtitle translation
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In Vanda's Room (2000)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 02:50:47 | 7,71 Gb
Audio: Portuguese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Art-house, Drama | Criterion Collection #510
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 02:50:47 | 7,71 Gb
Audio: Portuguese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Art-house, Drama | Criterion Collection #510
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.
Edition Details:
• Film newly restored in high-definition, under the supervision of director Pedro Costa
• New audio commentary featuring Costa in conversation with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin (in English)
• Gallery of photos by Richard Dumas
• Theatrical trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation
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Colossal Youth (2006)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 02:36:06 | 6,91 Gb
Audio: Portuguese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Art-house, Drama | Criterion Collection #511
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 02:36:06 | 6,91 Gb
Audio: Portuguese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Art-house, Drama | Criterion Collection #511
Many of the lost souls of Ossos and In Vanda’s Room return in the spectral landscape of Colossal Youth, which brings to Pedro Costa’s Fontainhas films a new theatrical, tragic grandeur. This time, Costa focuses on Ventura, an elderly immigrant from Cape Verde living in a low-cost housing complex in Lisbon, who has been abandoned by his wife and spends his days visiting his neighbors, whom he considers his “children.” What results is a form of ghost story, a tale of derelict, dispossessed people living in the past and present at the same time, filmed by Costa with empathy and startling radiance.
Edition Details:
• Film newly restored in high-definition, under the supervision of director Pedro Costa
• New video conversation between Costa and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin
• Theatrical trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation
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Supplement Disc | 7,55 Gb
Edition Details:
• New selected-scene audio commentary for Colossal Youth with critic Cyril Neyrat and author-philosopher Jacques Rancière
• All Blossoms Again, a feature-length documentary on Costa (1:20:42)
• Tarrafal (17:46)
• The Rabbit Hunters (23:11)
• Little Boy Male, Little Girl Female, a video installation piece by Costa (34:44)
• 45 Page Fully Illustrated Booklet
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In a 2006 edition of the great film magazine "Cinema Scope," Mark Peranson famously exhorted readers to "Vote For Pedro (Costa, That Is.)" In his article, he wrote that "To say that Pedro Costa is one of the world´s greatest filmmakers might sound like a provocation. But I have said it, and I will repeat it: Pedro Costa is one of the world´s greatest filmmakers." If his claim was a provocation at the time, it was only because so few people had seen Costa´s work. Even many top-line critics had not yet had an opportunity to see his seldom-distributed films. The success of "Colossal Youth" at Cannes in 2006 helped to change that, but his films have still remained difficult to see in America outside of an occasional retrospective.
Now Criterion has made these three marvelous, enigmatic films available to viewers. This means that for a whole new audience Peranson´s provocation will now read as an unproblematic statement of fact: "Of course he´s one of the world´s greatest filmmakers. He´s Pedro Freaking Costa!"
Not only are the three films in this boxed set masterpieces, but the extras provided by Criterion are both exhaustive (I´m going to sleep for three days after writing this review) and very informative. Costa´s work can be a bit daunting for some though I would not apply the damning labels "difficult" or "inaccessible" to any of them. The extras have been well chosen to contribute to the appreciation of Costa´s modern masterpieces.
I spent several hours combing through the Criterion Collection titles before seeing, so this is not a thoughtless tout. "Letters from Fontainhas" is one of the greatest titles Criterion has ever released. If I could keep only one title from the entire collection, it would probably be this one. Yes, it´s that good.
Nobody has an excuse for not knowing Pedro Costa now. So watch, enjoy, become a better person. It simply doesn´t get any better than this.
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