VITALINA VARELA [Blu-ray] Michael Almereyda’s Paradise is a

Michael Almereyda’s Paradise is a poignant and surprising sketchbook

” Completed between MEMORIES OF MURDER and THE HOST but never before released

The film features stunning animation and reflections by literary luminaries including Margaret Atwood

His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do

VITALINA VARELA [Blu-ray] Michael Almereyda’s Paradise is aA film of deeply concentrated beauty, acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Costas Vitalina Varela stars nonprofessional actor Vitalina Varela in an extraordinary performance based on her own life. Vitalina plays a Cape Verdean woman who has travelled to Lisbon to reunite with her husband, after two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange forbidding land, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Winner of