Colossal Youth ( Juventude Em Marcha ) ( En avant, jeunesse! )

Colossal Youth (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Juventude Em Marcha
Alternate Title: En avant, jeunesse!
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
150 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Portugal ( Spain, Portugal )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Pedro Costa

Written By:
Pedro Costa

Actors:
Ventura ..... Ventura
Vanda Duarte ..... Vanda
Beatriz Duarte ..... Clotilde
Gustavo Sumpta ..... Lento
Cila Cardoso
Isabel Muñoz Cardoso
Alberto 'Lento' Barros
António Semedo
Paulo Nunes
José Maria Pina
André Semedo
Silva 'Nana' Alexandre
Paula Barrulas

Synopsis:

A cross the course of history, only a relative handful of filmmakers can be said to have developed and refined a language of cinematographic expression which, inimitable, belongs to its creator alone. Pedro Costa, of our time, exists within this select group, and Colossal Youth is one of his sublime achievements. An intimate epic wherein present and past move as one, Colossal Youth chronicles Ventura, the towering Cape Verdean who has assumed the role of surrogate "father" to an untold number of characters around Lisbon and its now-razed neighbourhood of Fontaínhas. Through Ventura's ghost-like visitations to figures such as Vanda Duarte (the central personage of Costa's previous In Vanda's Room) and repeated recollections of his past life as a newly migrated manual labourer, Costa explores the nature, and necessity, of storytelling in the course of the human adventure. As with In Vanda's Room, Colossal Youth lays bare the residence of documentary inside of fiction (and vice-versa) using a digital video aesthetic in which every single image resonates with an indescribably poetic and rarefied force. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Colossal Youth in concert with Costa's complementary short works Tarrafal, The Rabbit Hunters, and Our Man - all for the first time in the UK.

The Portuguese film "Colossal Youth" was one of the most fascinating competition entries at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. To judge by the noisy walkouts during its press screening, it was also one of the most disliked, although the truer word might be misunderstood. Beautifully photographed, this elliptical, sometime confounding, often mysterious and wholly beguiling mixture of fiction and nonfiction looks and sounds as if it were made on another planet. And, in some respects, it was. Directed by Pedro Costa, whose earlier work I'm woefully unfamiliar with, "Colossal Youth" is something of a rarity, at least in the context of contemporary cinema. A work of cinematic art rather than a work of industrial or commercial art, it resists easy consumption

The Cap-Vert area of Fontainhas in the Lisbon suburbs is living its last days. The majority of its 9,000 inhabitants are to be rehoused in new apartment blocks. Clotilde, who has fond memories of the sea in the Cap-Vert and the sharks swimming there, decides to leave her husband, at 75. Ventura, a builder, is a little bit crazy ever since he had an accident at a construction site. Ventura refuses to change anything. He believes that old age can be youth.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 20 November, 2011.

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