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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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Reviews for The Best of Youth
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
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
Among the least cynical and most humanistic features of recent times.
05/29/04
There are some beautifully modulated performances from a vast cast of compelling characters.
02/09/04
The story this six-hour film from Italy tells is full of nuance and complexity, but it is also as accessible and engrossing as a grand 19th-century novel.
12/08/03
Top CriticThis six-hour Italian drama spans nearly 40 years in the life of one family, and in doing so, channels half a century in the life of a nation.
10/08/03
If you have better eyesight and a stronger lower lumbar than I do, you might confront the challenge of reading six hours and six minutes of subtitles with more enthusiasm than I did. But it's still six hours and six minutes out of your life.
10/08/03
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