Portugese

Review Of Vitalina Varela: Is Unbearably Dark

Vitalina Varela(Portugese) Starring Vitalina Varela Directed by Pedro Costa Rating: ** I confess I have seldom found it more difficult to sit through a film than this. Vitalina Varela is probably the darkest film I’ve ever seen. The unmitigated darkness of its heart first has to do with the squalor of the setting—a chawl in the suburbs of Lisbon so tiny it looks like passageway into hell with tiny gloomy rooms with walls and doors that hark back to a time when the place was inhabitable. Now it’s only a dumping ground for the desperately diasporic. Ci | Click Here...