No Quarto da Vanda
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| No Quarto da Vanda (In Vanda’s Room) |
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| Directed by | Pedro Costa |
| Produced by | Contracosta Pandora Film RTSI Ventura Film ZDF |
| Written by | Pedro Costa |
| Starring | Vanda Duarte |
| Cinematography | Pedro Costa |
| Editing by | Dominique Auvray Patricia Saramago |
| Release date(s) | 2000 |
| Running time | 179 min. |
| Country |  Portugal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Preceded by | Ossos (Bones) |
| Followed by | Juventude em Marcha (Colossal Youth) |
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No Quarto da Vanda (English: In Vanda’s Room, 2000) is a three-hour documentary film by Portuguese director Pedro Costa. The documentary follows the daily life of Vanda Duarte, a heroin addict, in the shanty outskirts of Lisbon. The film's focus is also on the community of the district and its townscape. No Quarto da Vanda is a kind of sequel to the drama film Ossos (1997) in which Vanda Duarte plays as an actress.
The documentary took a year to shoot after the crew settled in the location, Fontainhas district, where Vanda and the community including Cape Verdean immigrants lived depressed lives.
In spite of its three-hour length, the director Pedro Costa made the film in a minimalist style by using fixed shots entirely. Melancholic life of the community was shot on DV in a low-keyed way. Costa said about his impression of the district:
- ""When I entered the Fontainhas area, there were colors and smells that made me remember the things and events of the past, and also ideas about people to which I am attracted. These ideas nestled close to each other, living together even as they led very solitary lives because of violent and painful separation. A form of interesting and incompatible relationships existed in this."[1]
The documentary also sees this shanty district slowly being demolished. The displaced inhabitants are featured in Costa's next film Juventude em Marcha (Colossal Youth, 2006).
[edit] Acclaim
The documentary won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in 2001 "for presenting life in its near-original form". [2] [3]
Pedro Costa collected the France Culture Award (Foreign Cineaste of the Year) for directing the film at 2002 Cannes International Film Festival.[4]
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