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08/27/05
The Best of Youth (2005)
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Reviews Counted:60
Fresh:57
Rotten:3
Average Rating:8.3/10
Consensus: Earns its 6 hours running time by telling an engrossing story with compelling characters.
Runtime: 6 hrs 40 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, director Marco Tullio Giordana’s passionate epic THE BEST OF YOUTH follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous... [More]
Starring: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
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02/09/06
As a movie-going experience La meglio gioventu leaves much to be desired. If you are interested, buy the DVD instead.
07/29/04
Despite many charming elements, this movie is not an example of good storytelling.
05/13/05
If you have better eyesight and a stronger lower lumbar than I do, you might confront the challenge of reading six hours and six minutes of subtitles with more enthusiasm than I did. But it's still six hours and six minutes out of your life.
10/08/03
Got a spare six hours? Well, it would be a shame if you didn't, because this sweeping Italian drama is worth every minute.
03/25/05
The story this six-hour film from Italy tells is full of nuance and complexity, but it is also as accessible and engrossing as a grand 19th-century novel.
12/08/03
Top CriticThis six-hour Italian drama spans nearly 40 years in the life of one family, and in doing so, channels half a century in the life of a nation.
10/08/03
Works in the engrossing fashion of a good pulpy novel ... using whiskery melodramatic staples to digress into a whole slew of differing scenarios and moods.
03/02/06
The Best of Youth runs, though never dawdles, for an easy six hours, with barely a false note.
04/20/05
Top CriticTraces the quiet failures and proud struggles of everyday lives caught up like driftwood in the currents of history . . . conjures up an exultant, slice-of-life authenticity.
09/15/05
a story that's less like fiction and more like the way that families (and countries) actually age.
02/07/06
Best of Youth has the textures and depth of characterization of a great novel.
06/09/05
This is the sort of movie you'll recommend to friends and they'll go, 'Six hours! Are you nuts?' and then call you up and thank you in the middle of the night.
03/03/05
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