The film focuses on the interactions among four characters: Clotilde and Tina are close friends and neighbors living in the depressed Fontainhas district. Clotilde is very protective of the suicidal Tina, who has a newborn baby with an unnamed deadbeat father. Eduarda is a nurse living in a better working-class area. She meets the father and the baby by chance, and gets to know Clotilde and Tina as a result. Their ambiguous relationship keeps this downbeat story moving around the shanty town.
The director's ascetic style and this district's faded cityscape further stress the depressing tone of the film. Through the lenses of Pedro Costa and Emmanuel Machuel, Ossos records a tale of young lives torn apart at a devastated community.
ossos, this, article, about, portuguese, film, astronomical, survey, outer, solar, system, origins, survey, english, bones, 1997, portuguese, film, directed, pedro, costa, directed, bypedro, costawritten, bypedro, costaproduced, bypaulo, brancostarringvanda, d. This article is about the Portuguese film For the astronomical survey see Outer Solar System Origins Survey Ossos English Bones is a 1997 Portuguese film directed by Pedro Costa OssosDirected byPedro CostaWritten byPedro CostaProduced byPaulo BrancoStarringVanda DuarteNuno VazMariya LipkinaIsabel RuthInes de MedeirosCinematographyEmmanuel MachuelEdited byJackie BastideRelease date2 September 1997 1997 09 02 Venice Film Festival Running time98 minutesCountryPortugalLanguagePortugueseThe film was shot in the Fontainhas district of Lisbon also known as Estrela d Africa where disadvantaged dwellers and immigrants from former Portuguese colonies in Africa live desperate lives This drama film with some documentary elements made Pedro Costa acclaimed internationally It was nominated for Golden Lion and won the best cinematography Golden Osella at the Venice International Film Festival in 1997 He further dealt with the now defunct shanty district in his next two films In Vanda s Room 2000 and Colossal Youth 2006 Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 1 3 Credits 1 4 Home video 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksPlot editThe film focuses on the interactions among four characters Clotilde and Tina are close friends and neighbors living in the depressed Fontainhas district Clotilde is very protective of the suicidal Tina who has a newborn baby with an unnamed deadbeat father Eduarda is a nurse living in a better working class area She meets the father and the baby by chance and gets to know Clotilde and Tina as a result Their ambiguous relationship keeps this downbeat story moving around the shanty town The director s ascetic style and this district s faded cityscape further stress the depressing tone of the film Through the lenses of Pedro Costa and Emmanuel Machuel Ossos records a tale of young lives torn apart at a devastated community Cast 1 editVanda Duarte as Clotilde Nuno Vaz as The father Maria Lipkina as Tina Isabel Ruth as Eduarda Ines Medeiros as Whore Miguel Sermao as Clotilde s husband Berta Susana Teixeira as NurseCredits 1 editDirector Pedro Costa Writer Pedro Costa Producer Paolo Branco Cinematography Emmanuel Machuel Costume design Isabel Favila Production design Ze Branco Sound Henri Maikoff Sound Gerard Rousseau Editing Jackie BastideHome video editThis film together with In Vanda s Room 2000 and Colossal Youth 2006 is released by the Criterion Collection in a box set Letters from Fontainhas Three Films by Pedro Costa 2 See also editIn Vanda s Room Colossal Youth Docufiction List of docufiction films Ethnofiction Cinema veriteReferences edit a b Ossos The Criterion Collection Retrieved 2022 12 28 Letters from Fontainhas Three Films by Pedro Costa The Criterion Collection Retrieved 2022 12 29 External links editOssos at IMDb nbsp Ossos at AllMovie Podcast with Pedro Costa on the Letters from Fontainhas Criterion DVD set 2010 GreenCine Daily Pedro Costa s Fontainhas Trilogy Rooms for the Living and the Dead an essay by Cyril Neyrat at the Criterion Collection nbsp This 1990s drama film related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This article related to a Portuguese film is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ossos amp oldid 1145570606, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
