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"In only his second feature, Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa...brilliantly reworked Jacques Tourneur's classic I Walked with a Zombie into a reflection on his country's colonial legacy. A nurse, Mariana, accompanies Leao to his home on the volcanic islands of Cape Verde after an acci...

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Other Authors: Costa, Pedro (Screenwriter), Medeiros, Inês de, 1968- (Actor), Bankolé, Isaach de (Actor), Scob, Édith (Actor), Hestnes, Pedro, 1962-2011 (Actor), Machuel, Emmanuel (director of photography.), Andrade, Raul (Composer) (composer (expression))
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:Portuguese
Language Notes:Portuguese dialogue; with optional English subtitles.
Published: [New York, New York] : Grasshopper Film, [2017]
Subjects:
Coma > Patients > Drama.
Nurses > Drama.
Cabo Verde > Drama.
Feature films.
Detective and mystery films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Portuguese.
Motion pictures, French.
Motion pictures, German.
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Summary:"In only his second feature, Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa...brilliantly reworked Jacques Tourneur's classic I Walked with a Zombie into a reflection on his country's colonial legacy. A nurse, Mariana, accompanies Leao to his home on the volcanic islands of Cape Verde after an accident leaves him in a coma - but he goes unrecognized by fellow denizens, leaving Mariana trapped with and eventually entranced by a mysterious community. Never before released in the U.S. and now beautifully restored, Casa de Lava foreshadows the masterful films that would follow, yet is an extraordinary, ravishing work in its own right."--Container.
Item Description:Originally released as a motion picture in 1994.
Booklet ([10] pages ; color illustrations) featuring essays by film scholars Darlene J. Sadlier and Jonathan Rosenbaum inserted in container.
Bonus features: Casa de Lava scrapbook (2012 ; 24 min.), pages from Pedro Costa's notebook, featuring images and texts gathered during production, and set to original music; interview with cinematographer Emmanuel Machuel; theatrical trailer.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:Blu-ray; regions A, B, C; widescreen (1.66:1); Dolby Digital; requires Blu-ray player.
Audience:Rated: Not rated.
Awards:Entrevues Film Festival, 1994: Grand Prix in Foreign Film (Pedro Costa).
Thessaloniki Film Festival, 1994: Special Artistic Achievement (Pedro Costa).
Production Credits:Cinematography, Emmanuel Machuel ; editor, Dominique Auvray ; music, Raul Andrade.