Cinemark Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa offers a long and richly detailed look at his nation's poor and needy in this affecting blend of drama and documentary. It can be very scary to parents at times and I was glad to see this in the movie.
Yet Colossal Youth feels utterly sui generis, a unique metaphysical vision that, tracing its characters’ dislocation, seems to weave between alternate worlds as easily as it navigates from image to image. Copyright © Fandango.
| Rating: A | Rating: 4/5 The movie showed the ups and downs of high school life and the different battles and challenges that are faced.
August 23, 2017 Keep an eye out for Kimmy Caruso... both gorgeous and talented as an actress. Colossal Youth is an enthralling and epic reverie whose running time will test -- and ultimately reward -- viewer's patience. View All Photos (13) Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password.
Was this review helpful? Instead of training them to perform a story, he locates a skeletal narrative from a rehearsal process based on their personal stories. To judge by the noisy walkouts during its … Fontainhas was a community in Lisbon primarily populated by exiles from Cape Verde; Costa shot two of his earlier films there, Bones and In Vanda's Room, but Portuguese authorities tore down the village to make room for a new construction project, and its people were relocated to Casal Boba, a housing project on the edge of Lisbon.
There is a strange type of anonymity to this film, as if the personality behind the camera has utterly vanished, allowing what is depicted, to be genuinely seen, not just looked at. Now Ventura, left to his own devices, struggles to make a decent and dignified home for himself and the friends he calls his "children" in the slums of Casal Boba, including Vanda (Vanda Duarte), a recovering drug addict who was the focus of In Vanda's Room, and Lento (Alberto Barros), a close friend who is the only one Ventura trusts to hear the lovesick poetry he's written for his absent wife. | Rating: 4/5 | | You need a bit of patience with director Pedro Costa. Antonio "Nhurro" Semedo
June 18, 2012
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I gave Colossal Youth 10 stars because it was a wonderful movie and the actors and producers and writers did a great job on this movie . I have been waiting to see this film for many months/weeks and I finally did and I give this movie a 10/10 and 100% incredibly talented acting! The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive reviewThe percentage of users who rated this 3.5 stars or higher. Really enjoyed young actors. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email. Equation Distribution I took my 15 year old daughter to see it and she really enjoyed it as well. This movie sure hit the spot when it comes to teens having to figure life out.
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