(1997) Ossos/ Bones
(In Portuguese with English subtitles)
DRAMA/ SOCIAL COMMENTARY
Produced, written and directed by Pedro Costa, the first of three "Fontainhas" trilogy that centers on two adult sisters of Clotilde (Vanda Duarte) who has a daughter, Maura of her own, who at times lives with her sister, Tina (Mariya Lipkina) who has suicidal tendencies both sometimes cook or work as cleaning ladies. Tina unwillingly gives up her baby to her deadbeat and struggling father, (Nuno Vaz). The father eventually comes across a kind nurse, Eduarda Gomes (Isabel Ruth) who eventually helps the father and the mother Tina with her salary.
Expressionless and emotionless movie that is reminiscent to Carl Theodor Dreyer and Theodoros Angelopoulos to Aki Kaurismäki to name a few.
