The Best of Youth
by Marco Tullio Giordana
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Actor: Adriana Asti, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Luigi Lo Cascio, Sonia BergamascoDirector: Marco Tullio Giordana
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Cinematographer: Roberto Forza
Producer: Alessandro Calosci
Producer: Angelo Barbagallo
Producer: Donatella Botti
Producer: Gianfranco Barbagallo
Writer: Sandro Petraglia
Writer: Stefano Rulli
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of The Best of Youth
Movie Review: You will like it
Summary: 4 Stars
Regardless of whether this movie is a masterpiece or not, I am sure you are simply wondering if it is a good idea to invest six ours of your life in it, and perhaps do so more than once.
The answer is yes. More and more often I meet people, both Italians and Americans, of any age, who have seen it: not only they are immensely enthusiastic; they were in fact incapable to split it in different sessions. I recommend you watch it on saturday night: you are going to bed somewhere between 2:00 and 3:00 am.
As you know, the movie follows a family in forty years: you are guided through most of the relevant italian events: the flood of Florence, the angels of the mud, May '68, university occupations, the Basaglia law, terrorism, the anti-mafia team, the political scandals, and so on. It will certainly appeal to italophiles. Then again, it seems most educated americans are.
At the end, you'll feel as if you knew each character as an old friend, and Italy as a place you have been living for a while.
Personally, what I have most enjoyed about it was the recurring feeling that, in life, everything, good and bad, ends up to somehow right and necessary in its own way; and also the idea that trying to do your part in being happy and improving your corner of the word might be more important than any great revolution.
Summary of The Best of Youth
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!368 minutes of Italian TV miniseries--yes, that is indeed six hours' worth--comes unspooling in The Best of Youth, a stirring and beautiful experience. The film needs its running time to immerse us in the world of the Carati family from 1966 to near the present day. Two brothers are the primary focus: Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio), a responsible medical student, and Matteo (Alessio Boni), a troubled soldier. After a youthful road trip, their paths diverge, but each is carried along by the changing, sometimes violent, political weather of Italy in the 1970s and '80s. Life issues surge and ebb, with the increasing sense that Matteo is a lost soul, beyond even the help of the luminous woman (unforgettable Maya Sansa) who comes into his life.
Truth be told, The Best of Youth has some of the limitations of made-for-TV fare, from the simplicity of its themes to its cheap-looking makeup. (Those beards are not convincing.) But by the time you've spent a couple of hours with these characters, you're deeply invested in their joys and sorrows. At that point the measured pace begins to feel like the rhythm of life, and the people onscreen a mirror of ourselves. It's probably true that the cultural references and specific historic events will have more resonance for Italians than other viewers, but everything translates. Director Marco Tullo Giordana maintains the tone by allowing details to accumulate, and the location shooting, including a stint at the cinematically rich island of Stromboli, is consistently rich (his sampling of the music from Jules and Jim feels like a shortcut somehow, but who could argue that the music isn't perfectly in key with the melancholy mood?). The final act delivers an emotional coup de grace that has been thoroughly earned. And you'll feel like you earned it, too, having spent six hours with this moving film. --Robert Horton
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