Colossal Youth, Dir Pedro Costa, Portugal/France/Switzerland 2006
Colossal Youth
7, 14 - 15, 21 - 22, 28 Jun 2008
£8 / £7 Concessions / £6 ICA Members.
"An impressive, often transfixing excavation of emotionally dark territory." Film Comment
For one month only, a further chance to see Portuguese director Pedro Costa's challenging and rewarding drama following its initial April release. Set in the slums of Lisbon, this austerely beautiful film is a series of apparently disconnected tableaux, watching as an elderly ex-labourer negotiates his impending re-location to a modern, antiseptic apartment. Poised between fiction and non-fiction (the cast are all non-professionals), and putting rhythm and texture above conventional narrative, this is essential work from a visionary film-maker.
Dir Pedro Costa, Portugal/France/Switzerland 2006, 155 mins, subtitles
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