Colossal youthColossal youth

"Many of the lost souls of Osso and In Vanda's Room return in the spectral landscape of Colossal Youth, which brings to Pedro Costa's Fontainhas films a new tragic grandeur. This time, Costa focuses on Ventura, an elderly immigrant from Cape Verde living in a low-cost housing complex in Lisbon, who has been abandoned by his wife and spends his days visiting his neighbors, whom he considers his "children." What results is a form of ghost story, a tale-of derelict, dispossessed people living in the past and present at the same time, filmed by Costa with empathy and startling radiance."--Container.