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Revision as of 17:33, 31 January 2014
| Casa de Lava (Down to Earth) | |
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| Directed by | Pedro Costa |
| Written by | Pedro Costa |
| Produced by | Paulo Branco |
| Starring | Inês de Medeiros Isaach De Bankolé Édith Scob Raul Andrade |
| Cinematography | Emmanuel Machuel |
| Edited by | Dominique Auvray |
| Music by | Raul Andrade, Paul Hindemit |
Release date | 1995 |
Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | Portugal |
| Languages | Portuguese Cape Verdean Creole |
Down to Earth (Portuguese: Casa de Lava) is a 1995 Portuguese drama film directed by Pedro Costa. The film is set in Cape Verde Islands, a former Portuguese colony.
The drama is characterized by its reduced narrative, and photographies of the volcano in the Cape Verde islands. The title literally means "a house of lava".
Casa de Lava was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at 1994 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Plot
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama. There she finds that "she brought a living man among the dead." [2] Costa made the film in a densely minimalist style. Cryptic ellipses, cinematographic precision, narrative abstraction and lingering imagery of people and place, notably Mount Fogo, the highest active volcano of Cape Verde, are features in this melancholic meditation on love and loneliness.
Cast
- Inês de Medeiros - Mariana (as Inês Medeiros)
- Isaach De Bankolé - Leão
- Edith Scob - Edite
- Pedro Hestnes - Edite's Son
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Down to Earth". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
- ^ Quoted from the distributor's official synopsis
External links
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