Now we’re talking.  This is some serious Criterion Collection viewing right here.  Pedro Costa’s docufiction is a snail’s-paced meditation on the lives of the largely Cape Verde immigrants living in the Fontainhas neighborhood of Lisbon, Portugal.  This movie is not concerned with entertaining you.  This movie is not concerned with delighting you.  The rose-colored glasses of studio cinema are nowhere to be found.  Follow Ventura (played by himself) as we walks from home to home, visiting with “his children” as he listens to recitations of their lives marked by the struggles of poverty and oppression.

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Double Life of Veronique (1991).