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02/09/06
The Best of Youth (2005)
95 %
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
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 events of recent Italian history. In a final period of hopeful innocence, free-spirited Nicola... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco, Maya Sansa
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
Screenwriter: Stefano Rulli, Sandro Petraglia
Producer: Angelo Barbagallo
Screenwriter: Stefano Rulli, Sandro Petraglia
Producer: Angelo Barbagallo
Reviews
Top Critic
Extraordinarily 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 Critic
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
Top Critic
You weep, laugh, celebrate and mourn with the characters throughout the six hours, which at once seem like an eternity and an instant.
05/13/07
An astonishing, deeply engrossing Italian family saga that happens to be six hours long.
06/23/06
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05/06/06
Top Critic
The Best of Youth is no masterpiece, but it has enough truthful, moving moments to make it worthwhile.
03/16/06
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
a story that's less like fiction and more like the way that families (and countries) actually age.
02/07/06
This epic elegy to family and country is a towering work of narrative fiction.
02/05/06
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09/26/05
Top Critic
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.
09/23/05
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.
09/15/05
By the end, we know these characters so well that just seeing any two of them meet draws tears
09/01/05
It maintains a defiant optimism that the actions of individuals matter.
08/10/05
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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