Colossal Youth (film)

Colossal Youth
Directed by	Pedro Costa
Produced by	Francisco Villa-Lobos
Written by	Pedro Costa
Starring	Ventura Vanda Duarte Beatriz Duarte Cila Cardoso Alberto "Lento" Barros
Music by	Nuno Carvalho
Cinematography	Pedro Costa Leonardo Simões
Editing by	Pedro Marques
Distributed by	Memento Films
Release date(s)	November 23, 2006 (2006-11-23) (Portugal) April 28, 2007 (2007-04-28) (SFIFF)
Running time	155 minutes
Country	Portugal
Language	Portuguese Cape Verdean Creole

Colossal Youth (Portuguese: Juventude em Marcha, literally "Youth on the March") is a 2006 film directed by Portuguese director Pedro Costa. The film was shot on DV in long, static takes and mixes documentary and fiction storytelling. The third feature by Costa set in Lisbon's Fontainhas neighborhood (after In Vanda's Room and Bones), Colossal Youth is a meditation on the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution and its consequences for Portugal's poverty-stricken Cape Verdean immigrants. It was part of the Official Competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Plot

After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.

References

1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Colossal Youth". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4360212/year/2006.html. Retrieved 2009-12-13. 

External links

• Colossal Youth at Memento Films International
• Colossal Youth at the Internet Movie Database
• Colossal Youth at AllRovi
• Colossal Youth at Rotten Tomatoes
• Podcast with Pedro Costa (on the Letters from Fontainhas Criterion DVD set, 2010) at GreenCine Daily