Colossal Youth demands to be seen more than once.

| Jun 18, 2012

You need a bit of patience with director Pedro Costa.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2010

Frustrating perhaps, but hypnotic if you can stick with it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2008

If you are able to slow down to Colossal Youth's deliberate rhythms, there's a strong chance you'll be dragged in by the film's undertow and resurface completely mesmerized.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2008

Beautifully photographed, the elliptical, often mysterious and wholly beguiling film Colossal Youth looks and sounds as if it were made on another planet.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 8, 2007

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.

Full Review | Aug 2, 2007

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.

| Jul 31, 2007

A unique metaphysical vision that, tracing its characters' dislocation, seems to weave between alternate worlds as easily as it navigates from image to image.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 30, 2007

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.

Full Review | Oct 30, 2006

Costa's experimentation reaches an aesthetic peak.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 23, 2006

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.

Full Review | Jun 1, 2006

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.

Full Review | May 26, 2006