2017 · austerity · family · crisis
Colo
Directed by Teresa Villaverde2h 16m2017
Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husband is unemployed. Their teenage daughter tries to keep living everyday life even if the money is running short, which makes everything uneasy. Escaping from their common reality, they slowly become strangers to one another, as the tension grows in silence and in guilt.
Our read: Colo (2017) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, inventive austerity · family · crisis entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, slow-burn, measured austerity / family, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- slow-burn
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