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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.

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

The Best of Youth is no masterpiece, but it has enough truthful, moving moments to make it worthwhile.

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.

a touchstone of Italian cinema

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

This epic elegy to family and country is a towering work of narrative fiction.