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The Best of Youth (2005)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:24
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.1/10
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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Reviews for The Best of Youth
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05/06/06
Top CriticUnfolds like a novel full of characters we can't help but care about.
07/29/05
Top CriticWhen 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
Top CriticFew films have ever made better use of combining social and political history with romantic melodrama and suspense.
06/24/05
Top CriticIts point is this: That every nation, like a family, is made up of many people who are often at odds with one another, but that ultimately, we are all one.
06/03/05
Top CriticA family that seems as real as your own relatives.
06/03/05
Top CriticDespite many charming elements, this movie is not an example of good storytelling.
05/13/05
Top CriticIn the end, you'll be savouring an emotion not often engendered by film: tranquillity, a calm acceptance, tinged with joy and flecked with sadness, of life's up-and-down journey.
05/13/05
Top CriticA slowly flowering miracle: an epic of normal life.
05/06/05
Top CriticThe Best of Youth runs, though never dawdles, for an easy six hours, with barely a false note.
04/20/05
Top CriticA beautiful, sprawling, wonderful story.
04/04/05
Top CriticSo in-depth, so appealing, so easy to sit through and so anomalously grand scale that few who see it will ever forget it.
04/01/05
Top CriticI dropped outside of time and was carried along by the narrative flow; when the film was over, I had no particular desire to leave the theater, and would happily have stayed another three hours.
04/01/05
Top CriticA major cinema event of the year, a masterpiece of Italian film traditions in social/political realism and historical family epic.
03/31/05
Top CriticThose who see it will, quite frankly, not believe their luck. It is that satisfying, that engrossing, that good.
03/18/05
Top CriticIt is, in short, the best of cinema.
03/09/05
Top CriticA graceful and enveloping feat of filmmaking.
03/05/05
Top CriticAfter all the observations on heartache, politics, art, commerce, passion, identity, mortality, even mental health, six hours begin to seem downright compact.
03/04/05
Top CriticIt's a human-scale saga you'll remember.
03/03/05
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