You weep, laugh, celebrate and mourn with the characters throughout the six hours, which at once seem like an eternity and an instant.
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05/13/07
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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09/26/05
It's a vast, sweeping epic that thrillingly sets its characters' lives against a wider backdrop of profound political, historical, and cultural change.
07/03/04
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07/14/07
A slowly flowering miracle: an epic of normal life.
05/06/05
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09/04/05
There are some beautifully modulated performances from a vast cast of compelling characters.
02/09/04
I dropped outside of time and was carried along by the narrative flow; when the film was over, I had no particular desire to leave the theater, and would happily have stayed another three hours.
04/01/05
Top CriticA major cinema event of the year, a masterpiece of Italian film traditions in social/political realism and historical family epic.
03/31/05
Not to be missed by anyone who cares about the joys, sorrows, and challenges of living in the modern world.
03/03/05
Its storytelling style is as close to the novel form as you'll find on film, both a strengh and a weakness.
03/31/05
The Best of Youth is no masterpiece, but it has enough truthful, moving moments to make it worthwhile.
03/16/06
Among the least cynical and most humanistic features of recent times.
05/29/04
Unfolds like a novel full of characters we can't help but care about.
07/29/05
When the movie concludes, you can talk about these characters as if you actually know them -- which won't be far from the truth.
07/29/05
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10/18/08
Few films have ever made better use of combining social and political history with romantic melodrama and suspense.
06/24/05
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
A beautiful, sprawling, wonderful story.
04/04/05
Top CriticExtraordinarily ambitious and effacingly accomplished, this is both an affecting domestic drama and a provocative political epic that is never anything less than intimate, intelligent and involving.
07/03/04
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