It’s a challenging 155 minutes, but it’s a film that you can easily drift too and from while retaining a clear sense of place, person and purpose.
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10/30/06
Colossal Youth (2006)
80 %
Reviews Counted: 10 Fresh: 8 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 35 mins
Genre: Dramas
Director: Pedro Costa
Reviews
1 - 10 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top Critic
Beautifully photographed, the elliptical, often mysterious and wholly beguiling film Colossal Youth looks and sounds as if it were made on another planet.
08/08/07
Top Critic
Eventually, across the monumental boredom, mesmerizing, nearly still images and poetic rhythms of this 155-minute film, something like pathos or meaning can be sensed, if not really apprehended.
08/02/07
Rather than impose actors on the scene, Costa involves the people who already live there. Instead of training them to perform a story, he locates a skeletal narrative from a rehearsal process based on their personal stories.
07/31/07
A unique metaphysical vision that, tracing its characters' dislocation, seems to weave between alternate worlds as easily as it navigates from image to image.
07/30/07
Colossal Youth (Juventude em Marcha), has some arresting images and an interesting central character but its lack of narrative pace will exhaust the patience of most audiences.
06/01/06
Top Critic
Far-reaching study of poverty, loneliness and hope amid suffering is weighed down by its soporific structure, deliberately indolent pacing and endlessly attenuated conversations among a clutch of ill-defined personalities.
05/26/06
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