Its point is this: That every nation, like a family, is made up of many people who are often at odds with one another, but that ultimately, we are all one.
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06/03/05
The Best of Youth (2005)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:24
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.1/10
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
Reviews for The Best of Youth
1 - 9 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticA family that seems as real as your own relatives.
06/03/05
Top CriticThe Best of Youth runs, though never dawdles, for an easy six hours, with barely a false note.
04/20/05
Top CriticA beautiful, sprawling, wonderful story.
04/04/05
Top CriticI 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 CriticThose who see it will, quite frankly, not believe their luck. It is that satisfying, that engrossing, that good.
03/18/05
Top CriticAn impassioned epic that sweeps up its characters in nearly 40 years of human drama and social history, intertwining the two with a master seamstress' delicacy.
02/24/05
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
Top CriticThe 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
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