Cast
Vanda Duarte Zita Duarte 
Pedro Costa
Credits
Produced by: Karl Baumgartner
Plot
Vanda, a drug user, spends her days in her bedroom in the Fontainhas, coughing, talking to her sister, while her neighbourhood is demolished.
Sinekatalog’s take
Pedro Costa's long, intimate film watches Vanda in her bedroom in Lisbon's Fontainhas as her neighbourhood is demolished. Shot in dim, painterly light, it is a patient, haunting document of poverty and addiction.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.0 / 10 (1,931 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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