Second Run mourns with VITALINA VARELA (review)

A woman arrives in Lisbon from Cape Verde to reunite with her husband who has been away working for twenty years only to discover that he died days before in Pedro Costa's VITALINA VARELA, the story of a woman's isolation in a foreign country and her attempts to find closure and rejoin the world of the living.

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VITALINA VARELA Blu-ray specs:

• 1080i50 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 pillarboxed fullscreen
• Portuguese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English and Portugeuse subtitles
• Introduction by Chris Fujiwara
• Interview with director Pedro Costa by Maria Delgado at the ICA Cinema, London
• "Pedro Costa: Companhia" short film about Costa’s installation exhibition at the Serralves Museum, Porto in 2018
• 4 Teaser Trailers
• 24-page booklet featuring writing on the film by Daniel Kasman