Synopsis
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 Fontainhas 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.
Cast
| Ventura | |
| Vanda Duarte | |
| Paula Barrulas | |
| Cila Cardoso | |
| Silva 'Nana' Alexandre | |
| Alberto 'Lento' Barros | |
| Beatriz Duarte | |
| Paulo Nunes | |
| Gustavo Sumpta | |
| António Semedo | |
| José Maria Pina |
Credits
| Director | Pedro Costa |
| Producer | Francisco Villa-Lobos, Philippe Avril and Andres Pfaeffli / Elda Guidinetti |
| Cinematography | Pedro Costa and Leonardo Simões |
| Editing | Pedro Marques |
| Sound | Olivier Blanc, Vasco Pedroso and Jean-Pierre Laforce |
Disc Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPECIAL EDITION:
- Film remastered from the digital camera original, under the supervision of director Pedro Costa
- New video conversation between Costa and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
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