Float On: Costa Laments Sister In Intimate Portrait
Petra Costa has been trying to process the suicide of her older sister for over two decades now. The young docu director’s first feature, Elena, is a loving postmortem tone poem addressed to the departed as if to publicly remind her sister of her worth and to confront her for her cowardice. Bearing all the emotional brutality that follows the passing of a loved one, Costa’s film wraps raw intimacy with ethereal imitation to bring her sister back to life with lucid verve as a continued celebration of her lasting impact. In life, Elena was a Brazilian dancer turned movie bound New Yorker, dead set on becoming a star. Following in her sister’s footsteps, Petra has taken up the camera, performs before it and let’s her voice lay elegantly aloft the starkly personal collage she’s constructed.
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Petra Costa has been trying to process the suicide of her older sister for over two decades now. The young docu director’s first feature, Elena, is a loving postmortem tone poem addressed to the departed as if to publicly remind her sister of her worth and to confront her for her cowardice. Bearing all the emotional brutality that follows the passing of a loved one, Costa’s film wraps raw intimacy with ethereal imitation to bring her sister back to life with lucid verve as a continued celebration of her lasting impact. In life, Elena was a Brazilian dancer turned movie bound New Yorker, dead set on becoming a star. Following in her sister’s footsteps, Petra has taken up the camera, performs before it and let’s her voice lay elegantly aloft the starkly personal collage she’s constructed.
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- 6/4/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
I'm feeling the post-fest blues already. Another Cine Las Americas is over. But it's less than a year til the next one. Chamaco (The Kid), the closing-night film played to a near capacity crowd, with a special introduction thanking festival staff for their hard efforts and announcing the winners of the competitions. I think I wrote them down correctly, but if not I'll correct it when the official announcement comes out:
Best Narrative Feature: Mal día para pescar (Bad Day to Go Fishing).
Honorable Mention: Memorias del desarrollo (Memories of Overdevelopment) Best Documentary Feature: La tierra sin mal (The Land of No Evil).
Honorable Mention: Which Way Home Best Narrative Short: Fantastic Fest selection Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5
Honorable Mention: Austin-made short by Miguel Alvarez, Mnemosyne Rising Best Documentary Short: Olhos de Ressaca (Undertow Eyes).
Honorable Mention: Point of Entry Best Hecho en Tejas: Austinite Sharon Arteaga's When...
Best Narrative Feature: Mal día para pescar (Bad Day to Go Fishing).
Honorable Mention: Memorias del desarrollo (Memories of Overdevelopment) Best Documentary Feature: La tierra sin mal (The Land of No Evil).
Honorable Mention: Which Way Home Best Narrative Short: Fantastic Fest selection Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5
Honorable Mention: Austin-made short by Miguel Alvarez, Mnemosyne Rising Best Documentary Short: Olhos de Ressaca (Undertow Eyes).
Honorable Mention: Point of Entry Best Hecho en Tejas: Austinite Sharon Arteaga's When...
- 4/30/2010
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
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