ENC: Rio Corgo

The Bioscope is proud to welcome back The Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival.

Tickets R55

Rio Corgo (2015)

Directed by: Sérgio Da Costa & Maya Kosa 

95min

This delicately constructed feature début, from directing duo Sérgio Da Costa and Maya Kosa, chronicles the final days of the life of Joaquim Silva, a romantic and somewhat dandified drifter who has been everything from a shepherd to a barber to an umbrella repairman. At the beginning of the film, Silva arrives in an isolated Portuguese village where he meets the young Ana who, drawn to the strange old man, gradually enters both his physical and interior world. Exquisitely shot with a painterly devotion and infused with a sense of the supernatural, Rio Corgo sits at the intersection of document, fiction and fine art, its meditative quality only enhancing its narrative accessibility. This languidly poetic left-field masterpiece is another testament to Switzerland’s increasingly respected contemporary film canon.