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Vitalina Varela

2019

Pedro Costa

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

6.8

811

Drama Vitalina Varela, a 55-year-old woman from Cape Verde, arrives in Lisbon three days after her husband’s funeral. She’s been waiting for her plane ticket for more than 25 years.

	Author	Review
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Another ravishing, masterful vision from Pedro Costa (...) [It] showcases Costa’s masterful ability to mine cinematic poetry from a unique environment"	POS
United States	Neil Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A spellbinding nightmare (...) An undeniably demanding but cumulatively rewarding mood piece (...) [An] intricately crafted, quietly moving study of grief"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Bleak but beautiful (...) This film demands a great deal of attention, but to me it works better than Costa’s widely admired 'Horse Money' (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Pedro Costa’s strict adherence to formalism will excite his base, while others will be less enthralled by his rigidly composed images used to generate intellectualized emotions."	NEU
United States	Rory O'Connor The Film Stage	"Costa’s style is at once aesthetically unique and thematically contemporary while also (...) clearly the work of a great cinematic classicist."	POS
	Giorgia Del Don Cineuropa	"A sombre and uncompromising ode (...) Vitalina tells her story without paying attention to the expectations of those who listen (or rather, those who watch), finally imposing her law."	POS

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