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The first film in Pedro Costa’s transformative trilogy about Fontainhas, an impoverished quarter of Lisbon, Ossos is a tale of young lives torn apart by desperation. After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live. With its reserved, shadowy cinematography by Emmanuel Machuel (who collaborated with Bresson on L’argent), Ossos is a haunting look at a devastated community.
Original Release
11/14/1997
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Vanda Duarte | Clotilde |
Nuno Vaz | The Father |
Mariya Lipkina | Tina |
Isabel Ruth | Eduarda |
Inês de Medeiros | Whore / The Girl |
Miguel Sermão | Clotilde's Husband |
Berta Susana Teixeira | Nurse |
Clotilde Montron | Friend |
Zita Duarte | Friend |
Beatriz Lopez |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Vanda Duarte | Clotilde |
Nuno Vaz | The Father |
Mariya Lipkina | Tina |
Isabel Ruth | Eduarda |
Inês de Medeiros | Whore / The Girl |
Miguel Sermão | Clotilde's Husband |
Berta Susana Teixeira | Nurse |
Clotilde Montron | Friend |
Zita Duarte | Friend |
Beatriz Lopez | |
Luísa Carvalho | |
Ana Marta | |
Carolina Eira | |
Ricky Tavares | (as Ricardo Tavares) |
Anna Carvalho | Prostitute |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Paulo Branco | Producer |