VITALINA VARELA, 2019

Portugal | DCP, Color, 124´ | Creole
Director: Pedro Costa
Cast: Vitalina Varela, Ventura Manuel, Tavares Almeida

Vitalina, who travels from Cape Verde to Lisbon to attend her husband’s funeral, misses the ceremony due to bureaucratic obstacles and finds herself confronting her own solitude. First seen as a supporting character in Horse Money, Vitalina here becomes an unforgettable protagonist. Costa transforms spaces into sacred sites, linking the themes of migration, mourning, and displacement to both a personal and collective memory. Following in the footsteps of masters such as Rossellini and Straub-Huillet, Vitalina Varela reminds us of cinema’s power to turn the everyday into the miraculous, offering a powerful story of rebuilding existence out of absence and ruin.

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