Ossos
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Ossos is a 1997 Portuguese film directed by Pedro Costa
.
The film is set in "Estrela d'Africa", Fontainhas district of Lisbon
, where disadvantaged
dwellers and immigrants from former Portuguese colonies in Africa
live desperate lives.
The story's focus is on a young girl and her lover who become parents of an unwanted baby.
Their ambiguous tendencies keep this downbeat story moving around the shanty town
.
The director's ascetic style and this district's faded cityscape emphasize the depressing tone of the film.
This drama film
with some documentary
elements made Pedro Costa
acclaimed internationally.
It was nominated for Golden Lion
prize at the Venice International Film Festival in 1997.
He dealt with this shanty district (totally defunct nowaday) further after Ossos.
The district's depression itself was mainly featured in his next film No Quarto da Vanda (In Vanda's Room).
Pedro Costa
Pedro Costa is a Portuguese film director.He is acclaimed for using his ascetic style to depict the marginalised people in desperate living situations...
.
The film is set in "Estrela d'Africa", Fontainhas district of Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
, where disadvantaged
Disadvantaged
The "disadvantaged" is a generic term for individuals or groups of people who:* Face special problems such as physical or mental disability * Lack money or economic support....
dwellers and immigrants from former Portuguese colonies in Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
live desperate lives.
The story's focus is on a young girl and her lover who become parents of an unwanted baby.
Their ambiguous tendencies keep this downbeat story moving around the shanty town
Shanty town
A shanty town is a slum settlement of impoverished people who live in improvised dwellings made from scrap materials: often plywood, corrugated metal and sheets of plastic...
.
The director's ascetic style and this district's faded cityscape emphasize the depressing tone of the film.
This drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
with some documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
elements made Pedro Costa
Pedro Costa
Pedro Costa is a Portuguese film director.He is acclaimed for using his ascetic style to depict the marginalised people in desperate living situations...
acclaimed internationally.
It was nominated for Golden Lion
Golden Lion
Il Leone d’Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes...
prize at the Venice International Film Festival in 1997.
He dealt with this shanty district (totally defunct nowaday) further after Ossos.
The district's depression itself was mainly featured in his next film No Quarto da Vanda (In Vanda's Room).