Name: Vitalina Varela (2019)
Start: 2020-03-12T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2020-03-12T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Globe Cinema

Vitalina  Varela (2019)

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A ravishing masterpiece from Pedro Costa, Vitalina Varela stars a non-professional actor in a performance based upon her own life.

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Series - Contemporary World CinemaDirected by Pedro Costa | Portugal | 124 mins.A moody masterpiece from acclaimed director Pedro Costa, Vitalina Varela (2019) stars the titular non-professional actor in a heartbreaking 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. Costa&#x27;s latest film has received endless praise from the festival circuit, winning the Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno Film Festival. With a tragic humanism evocative of a neorealist classic, Vitalina Varela has been described by TIFF as &quot;a series of burnished, painterly still lifes, rendering the nightmarish reality of the African diaspora and the harrowing legacy of racial and colonial violence as a dreamlike portrait of the living dead.&quot;

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