Melnitz Movies: "Colossal Youth" ("Juventude em Marcha")

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Tue Nov 10 at 7:30 PM

“Colossal Youth” (“Juventude em Marcha”)

Director Pedro Costa in person!

"The film consists of a series of hieratically lit and colored encounters between a Cape Verdean immigrant named Ventura and assorted friends, family and neighbors, each more down and out than the next, shot in low-angled single takes in a near-abandoned old quarter of Lisbon and a new government-run apartment complex…A truly incantatory experience, “Colossal Youth” is an impressive, often transfixing excavation of emotionally dark territory, and its duration is directly tied to its overall shape and impact. It's a singular vision of underclass existence, simultaneously decrepit and monumental."
— Kent Jones, “Film Comment”

“[I was] electrified by this raw existential intensity…visually rapturous.”
— Nathan Lee, “Village Voice”

“It’s unlike anything else I’ve seen — mysterious, exalted, demanding, leisurely paced, and very beautiful.”
—Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Chicago Reader”

Curated in association with the American Film Institute. Co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Film and TV Office of the French Embassy, the UC Humanities Research Institute, and the UCLA Departments of Film, TV, and Digital Media and Spanish and Portuguese.

“Colossal Youth”
Writer/Director: Pedro Costa
In Portuguese with English subtitles
155 min

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Keywords

"pedro costa" 

Published

Wed Dec 31, 1969 in Screening

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