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Product Description In only his second feature, Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa (HORSE MONEY, IN VANDA'S ROOM) brilliantly reworked Jacques Tourneur's classic I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE into a reflection on his country s colonial legacy. A nurse, Mariana (Inês Medeiros), accompanies Leão (Isaach De Bankole) to his home on the volcanic islands of Cape Verde after an accident sends him into a coma. Yet he goes unrecognized by fellow denizens, leaving Mariana trapped with and eventually entranced by a mysterious community. Never before released in the U.S. and now beautifully restored, CASA DE LAVA foreshadows the masterful films that would follow, yet is an extraordinary, ravishing work in its own right. SPECIAL FEATURES: Casa de Lava scrapbook (2012, 24 minutes), pages from Pedro Costa s notebook, featuring images and texts gathered during production, and set to original music Interview with cinematographer Emmanuel Machuel Theatrical Trailer Plus, a booklet featuring essays by film scholars Darlene J. Sadlier and Jonathan Rosenbaum Review "New enigmas reveal themselves with each new viewing." --Jacques Rivette

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A visionary masterwork from the renowned director of COLOSSAL YOUTH, Pedro Costa's HORSE MONEY is a mesmerizing odyssey into the real, imagined and nightmarish memories of the elderly Ventura, a Cape Verdean immigrant living in Lisbon. The time is now, a numbing and timeless present of hospital stays, bureaucratic questioning, and wandering through remembered spaces... and suddenly it is also then, the mid '70s and the time of Portugal's Carnation Revolution, when Ventura got into a knife fight with his friend Joaquim. HORSE MONEY is a self-reckoning, a moving memorialization of lives in danger of being forgotten, as well as a piercingly beautiful work of modern cinema. Special Features OUR MAN (2010, 23 minutes), a short film by Pedro Costa Booklet featuring "The Road to Perdition," an essay by film critic Chris Fujiwara Top Similar From the Brand Reviews Horse Money