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Pedro Costa (born 30 December 1958) is a Portuguese film director. He is best known for his sequence of films set in Lisbon, which focuses on the lives of the impoverished residents of a slum in the Fontainhas neighbourhood.
Mar 10, 2010 · Portuguese director Pedro Costa shares his favorite films by Jean Renoir, Jacques Tati, Yasujiro Ozu, and more. See his list and learn about his own works available from Criterion.
Pedro Costa is a filmmaker who makes low-budget documentaries with non-professional actors in Lisbon. He is known for his films Horse Money, Vitalina Varela and Colossal Youth, among others.
- January 1, 1
- 1.83 m
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Director, Writer, Cinematographer
Pedro Costa enters that intimate world, where bodies gain expression through shadows and repetitive movements, granting it a dimension that only cinema is capable of. This narrative was...
Dec 30, 2019 · Throughout his career, Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa has moved almost exclusively along a single trajectory, creating a hermetically sealed universe inspired by the marginalised residents of Fontainhas, a now-demolished shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon.
Explore the Fontainhas trilogy, a series of intimate and haunting portraits of the impoverished Lisbon neighborhood by Pedro Costa. The set includes Ossos, In Vanda's Room, and Colossal Youth, with commentaries, interviews, and extras.
Mar 30, 2010 · Explore the work of Portuguese director Pedro Costa, who filmed a community of subproletarians and Cape Verdean immigrants in a Lisbon neighborhood that no longer exists. Discover how he reinvented his art, found his own light, and captured the truth of his characters in Ossos, In Vanda's Room, and Colossal Youth.
