CriterionForum.org :: Info for Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa

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.

Box Set: The following DVDs are included in this set:

Ossos
Spine #509

In Vanda's Room
Spine #510

Colossal Youth
Spine #511

Supplements

New video conversations between Costa and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin about Ossos and Colossal Youth
Audio commentary for In Vanda's Room featuring Costa and Gorin
Selected-scene audio commentary by critic Cyril Neyrat and author-philosopher Jacques Rancière for Colossal Youth
Video interviews with critic João Bénard da Costa and cinematographer Emmanuel Machuel about Ossos
Video essay by artist Jeff Wall on Ossos
All Blossoms Again, a feature-length documentary on Costa and the making of Colossal Youth
Tarrafal and The Rabbit Hunters, two short films by Costa
Little Boy Male, Little Girl Female, a video installation piece by Costa featuring outtakes from In Vanda's Room and Colossal Youth
Photographs by Mariana Viegas and Richard Dumas
Theatrical trailers

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