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Colossal Youth
Why this pick
Its sculptural darkness, fragmented memory, and patient observation extend Ossos’s concern with displacement and precarious family bonds, in an even more formally austere register.
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MOVIE1997 1h 34m PRT
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Why this pick
Its opaque soundscape, elliptical storytelling, and unnerving attention to social neglect offer a similarly destabilizing experience of reality observed from oblique angles.
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The Match Factory Girl
Why this pick
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Why this pick
Its lyrical yet unsparing view of childhood amid urban deprivation matches Ossos’s tactile poverty and emotional reserve, while bringing a more dreamlike visual sensitivity.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A suicidal young woman gives her newborn child up to his deadbeat father in the Fontainhas slums of Lisbon.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Inês de Medeiros
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