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Colossal Youth Series: Film Comment Selects [Feb 14-27 2007] Director: Pedro Costa, Country: France, Release: 2006, Runtime: 155 “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. The camera is usually placed low to the ground and angled up at the lost and haunted Ventura’s starkly beautiful form positioned against unforgiving sky and light. 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, FC Jul/Aug 06

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