VITALINA VARELA [DVD] restoring Almereyda’s brilliant consideration of

restoring Almereyda’s brilliant consideration of a singular mind

Days is a work of longing

a short film by Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (2013

and left there to die

VITALINA VARELA [DVD] restoring Almereyda’s brilliant consideration ofA film of deeply concentrated beauty, acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Costas Vitalina Varela stars nonprofessional actor Vitalina Varela in an extraordinary performance based on her own life. Vitalina plays a Cape Verdean woman who has travelled to Lisbon to reunite with her husband, after two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange forbidding land, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Winner of