Casa de Lava September 13, 2008

*Intro by film critic Dennis Lim

Directed by Pedro Costa

(1994) 110min

This documentary-inflected, dream-like narrative follows Mariana, a young Portuguese nurse as she accompanies a comatose Cape Verdean migrant construction worker back to his barren, economically depressed island homeland. As she struggles to fit in and piece together the man's elusive history, a larger, shared discourse of displacement surfaces, accompanied by the ghosts of a complex post-colonial history.

Part of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar
http://www.flahertyseminar.org/

Official Website: http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=360