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 B... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Huffington PostBrandon JudellWhat follows is a series of long and moderate takes, often wordless, which are remarkable in their passive beauty. Costa doesn't so much as direct a scene as he paints a scene. |
| User ReviewAdam SA brilliant movie about the loss of hope, about being just bones, no flesh, no soul. |
| User ReviewHans J. EThis is the first Pedro Costa film I've seen. I wanted to see newer films like In Vanda's Room or Colossal Youth, but i couldn't find them anywhere so this one had to do. I wasn't blown away by it, but I found it worth my time. |
| User ReviewEdward KI haven't figured this one out yet other than it's a new take on Social Realism and Kino-Pravda. No story, just meaningless desperation. |
| User ReviewJohn ACosta's style relies on the same kind of understated performances and minimalist dialogue as Tsai, Kaurismaki and especially Bresson. And obviously that's a style I enjoy, but I had a hard time getting into this movie. The problem is that I couldn't relate to the characters very well... in fact, I often couldn't understand them or their motivations. Costa seems to go out of his way to withhold information, which is sometimes an interesting way to subvert expectations... but sometimes just a frustration. I really wanted to like this film, and in a lot of ways I was intrigued, but ultimately I felt unsatisfied. |
| User ReviewDavid JUltra austere, bleak and depressing but supremely well photographed film about physically and emotionally destitute people in the slums of Lisbon |
| User ReviewBob GThose in poverty not only have lousy drab lives, paucity of speech, addictions to smoking and meandering aimlessly along dirty streets; but, in Portugal, whether men or women, they all grow moustaches. At least the New York Times found this âA parable of economic and spiritual desperation as oblique and concentrated as anything by Bresson.â?. Like all curates eggs there were a few interesting features; a very long opening shot of a man walking down the Lisbon street holding the baby; at my guess about 40 minutes before anyone manages a sentence; and some quirky ideas about where to put a baby when you want to have a sleep |
| User ReviewSam MOne of the worst movies I've ever seen, and the only one I ever fell asleep at movie theater.. so.. need I say more? |
