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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.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language and brief nudity

Runtime: 6 hrs 40 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Mar 2, 2005 Limited

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... 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 (Luigi Lo Cascio) travels the world and settles for a life as a successful psychiatrist, while his tragically introverted and idealist brother Matteo (Alessio Boni) joins the Italian police with the hope of righting society’s wrongs. Their politics and personalities are inextricably intertwined as the world around them violently shifts and they are pushed together and pulled apart by the tides of history and their own divergent dreams. [More]

Starring: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco

Starring: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco, Maya Sansa, Andrea Tidona, Fabrizio Gifuni, Jasmine Trinca

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
Screenwriter: Stefano Rulli, Sandro Petraglia
Producer: Angelo Barbagallo
Studio: Miramax Films

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  • In the award-winning epic tradition of THE GODFATHER and COLD MOUNTAIN, THE BEST OF YOUTH has wowed critics and earned honors at numerous film festivals worldwide. As Italy explodes in an era of social unrest, a single ill-fated incident sends the lives of equally idealistic brothers Nicola and Matteo Carati careening in opposite directions. Divided by politics but bonded by blood, the next 40 years will find the brothers? divergent paths intersecting through some of the most tumultuous events in recent history! A stunning cinematic achievement, you don?t want to miss this incredible motion picture!
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    10/18/08
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    07/14/07
    Joe Lozito
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    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 Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
    05/13/07
    Phil Villarreal
    Phil Villarreal
    Arizona Daily Star

    An astonishing, deeply engrossing Italian family saga that happens to be six hours long.

    Full Review Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | comment Comment
    06/23/06
    Jack Garner
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    05/06/06
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    The Best of Youth is no masterpiece, but it has enough truthful, moving moments to make it worthwhile.

    Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
    03/16/06
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
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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 Source: The Stranger (Seattle, WA) | comment Comment
    03/02/06
    Andrew Wright
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    a touchstone of Italian cinema

    Full Review Source: Old School Reviews | comment Comment
    02/20/06
    John A. Nesbit
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    02/09/06
    Derek Adams
    Derek Adams
    Time Out

    a story that's less like fiction and more like the way that families (and countries) actually age.

    Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
    02/07/06
    Chris Barsanti
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    This epic elegy to family and country is a towering work of narrative fiction.

    Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
    02/05/06
    Ed Gonzalez
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    09/26/05
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    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 Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment Comment
    09/23/05
    Sean Means
    Sean Means
    Salt Lake Tribune

    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 Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada) | comment Comment
    09/15/05
    Brian Gibson
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    09/04/05
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    By the end, we know these characters so well that just seeing any two of them meet draws tears

    Full Review Source: Movie Habit | comment Comment
    09/01/05
    Marty Mapes
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    08/27/05
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    It maintains a defiant optimism that the actions of individuals matter.

    Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
    08/10/05
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