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.
| 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 |
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By March 30, 2010
The work of Pedro Costa has progressed in slow, measured steps, but each step has been a giant leap. His slowness is both the condition and the consequence Read more »
February 04, 2010
For the past couple of months, critics and movie lovers have been madly assessing the first decade of film of the twenty-first century, offering lists of its best movies—and we’re happy to report that Read more »
April 05, 2010
Criterion’s release in a DVD box set of the trilogy Letters from Fontainhas is making director Pedro Costa’s name familiar to a wider audience than ever before. These days, you can learn a lot Read more »
April 09, 2010
Criterion’s release last week of the four-DVD box set Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa—featuring Ossos, In Vanda’s Room, and Colossal Youth, acclaimed Portuguese dramas Read more »
