- Casa de Lava
Infobox Film
name = Casa de Lava(Down to Earth)
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director =Pedro Costa
producer =Paulo Branco
writer =Pedro Costa
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starring =Inês de Medeiros Isaach De Bankolé Édith Scob Raul Andrade
music = Raul Andrade, Paul Hindemit
cinematography =Emmanuel Machuel
editing = Dominique Auvray
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released =1995
runtime = 110 min.
country = flagcountry|Portugal
language = PortugueseCape Verdean Creole
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website = http://www.madragoafilmes.pt/casadelava/#
amg_id = 1:134216
imdb_id = 0109384"Casa de Lava" (English title: "Down to Earth") is a 1995 Portuguese
drama film directed byPedro Costa . The film is set inCape Verde Islands , a former Portuguese colony.The drama is characterized by its reduced
narrative , and photographies of thevolcano in the Cape Verde islands.The title literally means "a house oflava "."Casa de Lava" was selected for "
Un Certain Regard " section at 1994Cannes International Film Festival . [ [http://www.festival-cannes.com/index.php/en/archives/artist/14054 Cannes film festival arhives] ]Plot
The film tells a story of Mariana, a depressing
nurse working inLisbon . She accompanies animmigrant worker in acomatose sleep on his trip to home. After she arrives in Cape Verde, she encounters the strange and enigmatic world.The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.There she finds that "she brought a living man among the dead." [Quoted from the distributor's official synopsis: [http://gemini-films.com/catalogue/casadelava_us.htm] ]The director Pedro Costa made the film in a minimalist style. Some ominous, poetic imageries of local people and
Mount Fogo , the highestactive volcano of Cape Verde, are used as esotericmetaphors of the heroine's isolation.For instance, the eerily first images are of Mount Fogo'svolcanic eruption and the lava flowing on its surface, preluding this film about solitary life with juxtaposition ofsilent volcanic eruption and locals'close-up shots accompanied by ominous music.References
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