Ossos

6.8

/10

1h 37mDrama Comedy

The first film in Pedro Costa's transformative trilogy about Fontainhas, an impoverished quarter of Lisbon, OSSOS is a tale of young lives torn apart by desperation. After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby's safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live. With its reserved, shadowy cinematography by Emmanuel Machuel (who collaborated with Bresson on L'argent), OSSOS is a haunting look at a devastated community.

Spoken language: pt

Starring Mariya Lipkina, Vanda Duarte, Nuno Vaz, Isabel Ruth, Miguel Sermão, Berta Susana Teixeira, Inês de Medeiros, Anna Carvalho, Ana Marta

Watch "Ossos" on Criterion Channel released in 1997. It's a drama and comedy movie, and has a rating of 6.8 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.