Slog - Comments on Colossal Youth http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/colossal_youth The title may put you in mind of a reality TV show about obese teens (I think the translation is a little off), but maybe that's OK--this difficult Portuguese movie is about the trauma of modern urban existence, thousands of miles and multiple chemicals away from traditional lifestyles. Colossal Youth The final entry in Pedro Costa's Vanda series finds Ventura, a statuesque older man from the Fountaínhas slum, scouting a unit in a new government housing project for his disparate "children," including the methadone-dependent Vanda from the previous films. The shots are studiously static and the narrative is hard to... Copyright 2008 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:27:52 -0800 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:34:48 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle Wow.

And I thought life in Sweeney Todd was hard.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/colossal_youth#c870565 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/colossal_youth#c870565 Film Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:32:49 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Is the soundtrack by Young Marble Giants?

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]]> MSW http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/colossal_youth#c870609 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/colossal_youth#c870609 Film Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:13:39 -0800 Comment by Fnarf It's not the best record ever made, but if you said it was I wouldn't disagree with you.

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