Ricardo Costa
Directing
Biography
Ricardo Costa (born 25 January 1940) is a Portuguese film director and producer. He is the author of essays on cinema, vision, and language. Most of his filmography consists of documentary films, pure cinéma vérité. Many include fiction elements (docufiction and ethnofiction). He uses the techniques of direct cinema not only as a tool for practicing salvage ethnography but also as a means to compose sober, "musical" and poetic narratives, interesting cinephiles and suitable for common audiences. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A middle-aged businessman, a neo-liberal, returns to Portugal to realize the ambitious dream of a banana plantation and help reconstruct the national economy, weakened by the "communist" revolutionaries. He fails. He even fails to meet his death, from which he mysteriously "escapes". To be continued?
Verde por Fora, Vermelho por Dentro
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A Sacada
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O Trol
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O Pão e o Vinho
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Das Ruínas do Império
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Mau Tempo, Marés e Mudança
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Longe é a Cidade
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Castro Laboreiro
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Uma Perdiz na Gaiola
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Mau Tempo
One hundred years of Portuguese Football, from the first public experiments in 1888, in Cascais, the evolution in the twenties, the National Stadium, the glory of the sixties, the 25th of April until 1984.
O Nosso Futebol
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Pitões, Aldeia do Barroso
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Tresmalho
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O Velho e o Novo
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Ao Fundo Desta Estrada
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E o Rio Corre
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O Submarino de Vidro
An important document from an era, which shows us the daily life in the fishing community of Caxinas and Poça da Barca, the efforts to create fishing cooperatives and the aspirations and achievements of community-based associations.
Born From the Sea
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O Rei dos Peixes
Fifty years have passed and the director meets Maria José again. She used to be a maid at his parents' house, when he was a child. From her he has heard the most fantastic stories. She was then eighteen and he was around six. The young woman became an elderly lady, a wrinkled great grandmother with the sea embedded in her eyes. She lives in a fishermen's village with white small houses perched at the edge of a cliff in Peniche, a neighborhood known as "Windows of the Sea". She now tells the story of her life in short sequences based on her experience and wisdom. Her story reflects itself in the personal and deformed narrative of the director. Seduced, the grandson and the great grandson all share a fabulous adventure. The games, the deep blue of the unpredictable Atlantic, under the splendor of the mists.