France / Portugal / Switzerland,
2006, 155 min
Plots(1)
Many of the lost souls of Ossos and In Vanda's Room return in the spectral landscape of Colossal Youth, which brings to Pedro Costa's Fontain has films a new theatrical, tragic grandeur. This time, Costa focuses on Ventura, an elderly immigrant from Cape Verde living in a low-cost housing complex in Lisbon, who has been abandoned by his wife and spends his days visiting his neighbors, whom he considers his "children." What results is a form of ghost story, a tale of derelict, dispossessed people living in the past and present at the same time, filmed by Costa with empathy and startling radiance. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ventura
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Colossal Youth (2006)
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Vanda Duarte
Best movies:
Colossal Youth (2006)
In Vanda's Room (2000)
Ossos (1997)
Beatriz Duarte
Best movies:
Colossal Youth (2006)