Pedro Costa
Pedro Costa | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 3, 1959 |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Occupation(s) | Film director and writer |
Pedro Costa (born 1959) is a Portuguese film director. He is acclaimed for using his ascetic style to depict the marginalised people in desperate living situations. Many of his films are set in a district of Lisbon inhabited by the socially disadvantaged and shot in a natural and low-key way that makes them resemble documentaries.
Biography
While studying history at University of Lisbon, Costa switched to film courses at School of Theatre and Cinema (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema). After working as an assistant director to several directors such as Jorge Silva Melo and João Botelho, he made a first feature film O Sangue (The Blood) in 1989.
He collected the France Culture Award (Foreign Cineaste of the Year) at 2002 Cannes Film Festival for directing the film No Quarto da Vanda (In Vanda's Room). Juventude em Marcha ("Youth on the March", known as Colossal Youth in Anglophone countries, and En avant, jeunesse ["Onward, Youth"] in Francophone countries) was selected for the 2006 Cannes Film Festival[1] and earned the Independent/Experimental prize (Los Angeles Film Critics Association) in 2008.
Filmography
- O Sangue (Blood) (1989)
- Casa de lava (House of Lava) — aka "Down to Earth" (1995)
- Ossos (Bones) (1997)
- No Quarto da Vanda (In Vanda's Room) (2000)
- Danièle Huillet/Jean-Marie Straub: Où gît votre sourire enfoui? (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Filmmakers - Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?) (2001)
- Juventude em Marcha (Colossal Youth) (2006)
- Tarrafal (2007)
- The Rabbit Hunters (2007)
- Ne change rien (Change Nothing) (2009)
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Colossal Youth". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
External links
- Letters From Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa
- Pedro Costa, "A Closed Door That Leaves Us Guessing" - Transcript of three days of lectures by Costa on cinema, delivered in Tokyo in March 2004, Rouge
- Tag Gallagher, "Straub Anti-Straub"(Analysis of Costa's oeuvre and its interactions with the canon of Straub and Huillet), senses of cinema.com
- Kieron Corless, "Crossing the Threshold" (Interview with Costa before a London retrospective at Tate Modern), Sight & Sound
- Miguel Gomes, "Serenity" (on how Costa films with the inhabitants of Fontainhas in Lisbon), Sight & Sound
- Podcast with Pedro Costa (on the "Letters from Fontainhas" Criterion DVD set, 2010), GreenCine Daily
- Pedro Costa at Allmovie
- New York Times
- Pedro Costa at IMDb
- Literature on Pedro Costa
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