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Down to Earth is a portugais film of genre Drama directed by Pedro Costa with Isaac de Bankolé
Down to Earth (1995)
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Add to a movie listDown to Earth (Portuguese: Casa de Lava) is a 1995 Portuguese drama film directed by Pedro Costa. The film is set in Cape Verde Islands, a former Portuguese colony.
The drama is characterized by its reduced narrative, and photographies of the volcano in the Cape Verde islands. The title literally means "a house of lava". The film has been described as Costa's remake of Jacques Tourneur's 1943 film, I Walked with a Zombie. Costa's work has often been compared to modern updates to classical Hollywood auteurs, with Jonathan Rosenbaum pointing out that Colossal Youth may be viewed as Costa's remake of John Ford's 1960 film Sergeant Rutledge.
Casa de Lava was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at 1994 Cannes Film Festival.
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The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.Actors
Isaac de Bankolé
(Leão)
Édith Scob
(Edith)
Inês de Medeiros
(Mariana)
Luís Miguel Cintra
(Actor convidado)
Isabel de Castro
(Actriz convidada)
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