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Release Date: 1995

Cast: Isaach De Bankolé, Édith Scob

Down to Earth (Portuguese: Casa de Lava) is a 1995 Portuguese drama film directed by Pedro Costa. The film is set in Cape Verde Islands, a former Portuguese colony. The drama is characterized by its reduced narrative, and photographies of the volcano in the Cape Verde islands. The title literally means "a house of lava". Casa de Lava was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at 1994 Cannes Film Festival. The film tells a story of Mariana, a depressed nurse working in Lisbon. She accompanies an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip to home. After she arrives in Cape Verde,... MORE

Down to Earth (Portuguese: Casa de Lava) is a 1995 Portuguese drama film directed by Pedro Costa. The film is set in Cape Verde Islands, a former Portuguese colony. The drama is characterized by its reduced narrative, and photographies of the volcano in the Cape Verde islands. The title literally means "a house of lava". Casa de Lava was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at 1994 Cannes Film Festival. The film tells a story of Mariana, a depressed nurse working in Lisbon. She accompanies an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip to home. After she arrives in Cape Verde, she encounters the strange and enigmatic world. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama. There she finds that "she brought a living man among the dead." The director Pedro Costa made the film in a minimalist style. Some ominous, poetic imageries of local people and Mount Fogo, the highest active volcano of Cape Verde, are used as esoteric metaphors of the heroine's isolation. For instance, the eerily first images are of Mount Fogo's volcanic eruption and the lava flowing on its surface, preluding this film about solitary life with juxtaposition of LESS