Rent Colossal Youth (2006)

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Synopsis:
Across the course of history, only a relative handful of filmmakers can be said to have developed and refined a language of cinematographic expression which, inimitable, belongs to its creator alone. Pedro Costa, of our time, exists within this select group, and Colossal Youth is one of his sublime achievements.
An intimate epic wherein present and past move as one, Colossal Youth chronicles Ventura, the towering Cape Verdean who has assumed the role of surrogate "father" to an untold number of characters around Lisbon and its now-razed neighbourhood of Fontainhas. Through Ventura's ghost-like visitations to figures such as Vanda Duarte (the central personage of Costa's previous In Vanda's Room) and repeated recollections of his past life as a newly migrated manual labourer, Costa explores the nature, and necessity, of storytelling in the course of the human adventure.
Actors:
, , Beatriz Duarte, , Cila Cardoso, Isabel Cardoso, Alberto 'Lento' Barros, António Semedo, , José Maria Pina, André Semedo, Silva 'Nana' Alexandre, Paula Barrulas
Directors:
Producers:
Francisco Villa-Lobos
Writers:
Pedro Costa
Aka:
Juventude Em Marcha
Studio:
Eureka
Genres:
Drama
Collections:
Masters of Cinema, Top Films
Countries:
Portugal
BBFC:
Release Date:
22/08/2011
Run Time:
150 minutes
Languages:
Portuguese Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles:
English
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • New and exclusive 17-minute video piece filmed at the Tate Modern, London, featuring Pedro Costa discussing Colossal Youth
  • Original Japanese trailer for the film
  • Three shorter works by Pedro Costa: Tarrafal [2007,18 minutes]; The Rabbit Hunters [2007, 23 minutes]; and the first home video release of O nosso homem [Our Man, 2010, 25 minutes]
  • Finding the Criminal [2010,118 minutes] - a new film by Craig Keller, featuring Pedro Costa in a 2008 conversation with Keller and Andy Rector on the history of cinema, cinema aesthetics, politics, music, etc
  • Trailer
Disc 1:
This disc includes the main feature
Disc 2:
This disc includes:
- Special Features

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Reviews (1) of Colossal Youth

Humane classic - Colossal Youth review by TE

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15/02/2020

Even amongst the best exponents of 'slow cinema' Pedro Costa stands out as an exceptionally gifted film maker.

He concentrates on the deprived community of Cape Verde families in Portugal, in this case the hypnotically engaging figure of Ventura, a gaunt, gangling older man.

The dialogue is mainly written by the untrained participants. There are long silences and there are passages of beautiful poetry. The tone is serious and even sombre, but there are moments of wry humour.

The loose narrative is thoroughly absorbing, mainly because the lighting and the camera angles are so cleverly designed. There is a sense of a very careful technician at work behind the apparent documentary surface.

Can't wait to see his other films.

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