Colossal Youth
Screening on Film
Directed by Pedro Costa.
With Ventura, Vanda Duarte, Beatriz Duarte.
Portugal/France/Sweden, 2006, 35mm, color, 155 min.
Portuguese with English subtitles.
With Ventura, Vanda Duarte, Beatriz Duarte.
Portugal/France/Sweden, 2006, 35mm, color, 155 min.
Portuguese with English subtitles.
Costa revisits the slums of Lisbon for the final film in the Fontainhas trilogy in which he follows Ventura, a Cape Verdean laborer who moves from his home in the dilapidated quarter to a stark new low-cost housing complex. Ventura’s story expands to those around him, including Vanda Duarte who has transitioned to methadone and settled down with her husband and child. Pared down from 320 hours of raw footage, Colossal Youth was one of the most controversial films at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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Tarrafal
Directed by Pedro Costa.
Portugal, 2007, 35mm, color, 16 min.
Print source: Filmmaker
Costa returns to the island of Fogo, the homeland of Colossal Youth's Ventura, where he previously filmed Casa de Lava. He considers the Tarrafal prison where political dissidents were tortured and killed for nearly forty years.
