Horse Money
Filmfest 2015
(Cavalo Dinheiro)
Portugal 2014
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: Cape Verdean Creole, Portuguese)
German Premiere
Director: Pedro Costa
Section: CineMasters
A disquieting epilogue converts Costa's Fontainhas trilogy about displaced Cape Verdeans into a reflective quartet. Ventura, the real-life anchor of Colossal Youth, returns as an old man, trapped in a world of illness, decaying urban landscapes and the ghosts of memories of war and life. Yet, these dialogues are not simply melancholic: Costa mixes in life, family and music. The whole becomes a powerful meditation on life and trauma in the post-colonial world, a virtuoso display of Costa as cinematic master.
HKIFF, 2015
Cast: Ventura, Vitalina Varela, Tito Furtado
Credits
Screenplay: Pedro Costa
Director of Photography: Leonardo Simões, Pedro Costa
Film Editor: João Dias
Composer: Os Tubarões
Sound: Olivier Blanc, Hugo Leitão, Vasco Pedroso
Producer: Abel Ribeiro Chaves
Production Company: Sociedade Óptica Técnica, OPTEC
Distributor: GRANDFILM
Director: Pedro Costa
