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  • Little White Lies

    Pedro Costa

    Mar 10, 2020 4 minutes
    Interview by DAVID JENKINS
    Illustration by
     
    MARINA ESMERALDO

    Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa makes flinty visual poems addressed to the disenfranchised and disenchanted. He projects empathy and envelops himself in the world of his subjects. He tries to make films which transmit something truthful about the inner-lives of others. Vitalina Varela is his latest masterpiece, a portrait of a Cape Verdean widow who arrives in Portugal in search of her estranged husband. Its story is carefully ripped from a tragic reality.

    Costa: No, this was very hard work. Very intense, long and difficult. [Costa regular and muse] Ventura had

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