Casa de Lava (Down to Earth)
Pedro Costa, 1994, DE, FR, PT, DCP, 105'
A film that was supposed to revamp another that had come before, but turned out to be the key to all those that were to follow. This was the film that led Pedro Costa to Cape Verde, which would ultimately lead him to Fontaínhas. It tells the story of Leão, who falls into a coma after an accident working on a construction site in Portugal, and Mariana, the nurse who accompanies him back to his home on the Cape Verde islands. It doesn’t take long before everyone in the film, not least its director, seems to lose all sense of direction, only to find one anew.
