In Vanda S Room

Centred on the heroin addicted vanda duarte the film is an unflinching and fragmentary look at a handful of self destructive marginalised people in a single lisbon neighbourhood.

In vanda s room.

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. Today is the 20th year anniversary of in vanda room first public screening so it is a good opportunity to revisit it. There is a real life vanda duarte and for most of pedro costa s grimly majestic feature from 2000 she s in her dimly lit room in her family s cramped home in fontainhas. 2000 was a key year in thinking about one can do with digital camera other major experiments like cavalier s vies and jost s.

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. In vanda s room at allmovie podcast with pedro costa on the letters from fontainhas criterion dvd set 2010 greencine daily pedro costa s fontainhas trilogy. A three hour drama about the daily existence of a drug addict living in a lisbon slum in vanda s room centers on the 30 something vanda who when she isn t selling vegetables spends most of her. Incredible how fresh it remains despite so many attempts to aproximate its effects in part because they are often misreading what costa does so well.

Rooms for the living and the dead an essay by cyril neyrat at the criterion collection. With vanda duarte lena duarte zita duarte manuel gomes miranda. The film follows the daily life of vanda duarte a heroin addict in lisbon and the community she lives in.