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.
Director: Pedro Costa
Cast: Mariya Lipkina, Vanda Duarte, Nuno Vaz, Isabel Ruth, Miguel Sermão, Berta Susana Teixeira, Inês de Medeiros, Anna Carvalho
Collection: The Fontainhas Collection
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.
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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 sha…
1h 37m
November 14, 1997
Pedro Costa
Mariya Lipkina, Vanda Duarte, Nuno Vaz
Drama
Yes, on Criterion Channel