Colossal Youth - Wellington Film Society

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Pedro Costa | Portugal/France/Switzerland | 2006 | M

“The final film in Costa’s loose Fontaínhas trilogy is one of the most remarkable and mysterious city films ever made, a portrait of individuals lost in a razed urban renewal zone that’s at once utterly familiar and totally alien. An exhausted but graceful Cape Verdean named Ventura wanders between the ruins of his old Fontaínhas slum (now destroyed) and the antiseptic new areas where the residents have been relocated, looking for his wife and home but finding only ghosts and memories. There’s little boundary between fiction, documentary, and avant-garde filmmaking here; scenes are united only by the character’s constant search for a place to call home, and by Costa’s astonishing lighting and framing of decaying walls and rugged visages (‘as if a direct invocation of Vermeer,’ noted Manohla Dargis in the New York Times).
- Jason Sanders, Pacific Film Archive.

“A hypnotic, poetic film rooted in harsh social reality… Colossal Youth is demanding, without a doubt, but also intensely rewarding, the work of an uncompromising and visionary filmmaker.”
- Jonathan Romney, London Film Festival, 2006.

The Fountainhas trilogy screens with the support of Creative New Zealand.

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