Hyperallergic spoke with the prolific Portuguese director about his distinct approach: “I tend to have this obsession with a balance between what’s in front of and behind the camera.”
Pedro Costa
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The Best Films of the Decade
The landscape of cinema has changed immeasurably in just 10 years. These 25 picks show how.
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Two (or Three or Four) Sides of the Same Story: The Films of Pedro Costa
Costa’s seventh feature, Vitalina Varela, is the latest in a filmography that consistently builds on its predecessors both thematically and stylistically, telling and retelling connected stories through different points of view.
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Haunted by the Present: Pedro Costa’s ‘Horse Money’
The history that underlies and often possesses Pedro Costa’s Horse Money, the final entry in the director’s Fontainhas tetralogy, is almost ironic – more than two decades in, Costa’s project has outlived its subject, the titular Lisbon slum now demolished by the Portuguese authorities.