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Vitalina Varela : a film / directed by Pedro Costa ; produced by Abel Ribeiro Chaves ; written by Pedro Costa, Vitalina Varela.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: Portuguese, Creoles and Pidgins, Portuguese-based (Other) Original language: Portuguese Subtitle language: English, Portuguese Series: Second Run ; 130Publisher: [New York] : Second Run, [2020]Copyright date: c2020Description: 1 video disc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bookletContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
  • text
Media type:
  • video
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
  • volume
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4372 VIT 22
Production credits:
  • Cinematography, Leonardo Si̳mes ; editor, Vitor Cavalho, Jôo Dias, Júlio Alves ; prodution manager João Fevereiro ; sound João Gazua.
Cast: Vitalina Varela, Ventura, Manuel Tavares Almeida, Francisco Brito, Nilsa Fortes, Marina Alves Domingues.Summary: A Cape Verdean woman travels to Lisbon to reunite with her husband, after two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange, forbidding land, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno Film Festival, as well as an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival.Summary: A film of deeply concentrated beauty, acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela stars nonprofessional actor Vitalina Varela in an extraordinary performance based on her own life. Vitalina plays a Cape Verdean woman who has travelled to Lisbon to reunite with her husband, after two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange forbidding land, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno Film Festival, as well as an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, Vitalina Varela is a film of shadow and whisper, a profoundly moving and visually ravishing masterpiece.Summary: A film of deeply concentrated beauty, acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Costa's Vitalina Varela stars nonprofessional actor Vitalina Varela in an extraordinary performance based on her own life. Vitalina plays a Cape Verdean woman who visits Lisbon to reunite with her husband following two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange, forbidding land, she perseveres and begins establishing a new life. Winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno Film Festival, as well as an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, Vitalina Varela is a work of shadow and whisper, a profoundly moving and visually ravishing masterpiece.
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Special Features
- Exclusive interview with Pedro Costa at the Toronto International Film Festival (41 minutes)
- "Chantal + Pedro," a short film in which Chantal Akerman and Pedro Costa (or rather, their films) meet in a movie theatre, by Júlio Alves (2020, 8 minutes)
- Theatrical Trailer
- Booklet featuring an essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum

Original production: Portugal, 2019.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2019.

Cinematography, Leonardo Si̳mes ; editor, Vitor Cavalho, Jôo Dias, Júlio Alves ; prodution manager João Fevereiro ; sound João Gazua.

Vitalina Varela, Ventura, Manuel Tavares Almeida, Francisco Brito, Nilsa Fortes, Marina Alves Domingues.

A Cape Verdean woman travels to Lisbon to reunite with her husband, after two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange, forbidding land, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno Film Festival, as well as an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival.

A film of deeply concentrated beauty, acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela stars nonprofessional actor Vitalina Varela in an extraordinary performance based on her own life. Vitalina plays a Cape Verdean woman who has travelled to Lisbon to reunite with her husband, after two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange forbidding land, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno Film Festival, as well as an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, Vitalina Varela is a film of shadow and whisper, a profoundly moving and visually ravishing masterpiece.

A film of deeply concentrated beauty, acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Costa's Vitalina Varela stars nonprofessional actor Vitalina Varela in an extraordinary performance based on her own life. Vitalina plays a Cape Verdean woman who visits Lisbon to reunite with her husband following two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange, forbidding land, she perseveres and begins establishing a new life. Winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno Film Festival, as well as an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, Vitalina Varela is a work of shadow and whisper, a profoundly moving and visually ravishing masterpiece.

Rating : 12 (Approved for 12 years)

DVD ; PAL ; NTSC ; widescreen (1.33:1) presentation ; 5.1 surround / 2.0 Stereo

Languages: Portuguese, Kabuverdianu ; Subtitle: English, Portuguese.

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