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
Reviews for The Best of Youth
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4/4 |
You weep, laugh, celebrate and mourn with the characters throughout the six hours, which at once seem like an eternity and an instant. Full Review |
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10/10 |
An astonishing, deeply engrossing Italian family saga that happens to be six hours long. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
The Best of Youth is no masterpiece, but it has enough truthful, moving moments to make it worthwhile. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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a touchstone of Italian cinema Full Review |
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4/5 |
a story that's less like fiction and more like the way that families (and countries) actually age. Full Review |
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4/4 |
This epic elegy to family and country is a towering work of narrative fiction. Full Review |
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4/4 |
With the six-hour running time, Giordana gets the space to let the characters live and let their shared story unfold like a good novel. Full Review |
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Traces 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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
By the end, we know these characters so well that just seeing any two of them meet draws tears Full Review |
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4/4 |
It maintains a defiant optimism that the actions of individuals matter. Full Review |
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