Ossos
Not Rated
01 hours 34 minutes
- Mariya Lipkina, Nuno Vaz, Vanda Duarte
- Pedro Costa
- Drama
- November 14, 1997
- Portuguese
- 6.8
Synopsis
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.
