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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.
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... [More]
Starring: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
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10/18/08
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07/14/07
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 CriticThe 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 touchstone of Italian cinema
02/20/06
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02/09/06
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 CriticWith 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
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09/04/05
Top CriticBy the end, we know these characters so well that just seeing any two of them meet draws tears
09/01/05
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08/27/05
Top CriticIt maintains a defiant optimism that the actions of individuals matter.
08/10/05
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