In Vanda's Room

The second film in the Fontainhas trilogy, In Vanda’s Room features Vanda Duarte and her sister Lena (both playing themselves) as crack-addicted sisters who resort to scraping residue from the pages of a book for their high while the shantytown in which they live is being demolished.

Despite the grim subject matter, Costa infuses his film with humor and his characters with dignity and humanity. (178 mins, 35mm)

Thanks to Ricardo Matos Cabo for organizing this retrospective.