Synopsis
Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?
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Cast
- Michael CaineFred Ballinger
- Harvey KeitelMick Boyle
- Rachel WeiszLena Ballinger
- Paul DanoJimmy Tree
- Jane FondaBrenda Morel
- Mark KozelekMark Kozelek
- Robert SeethalerLuca Moroder
- Alex MacQueenQueen's Emissary
- Luna MijovićMasseuse
- Tom LipinskiScreenwriter in Love
Recommendations
- 100
The Hollywood Reporter
Youth is a voluptuary’s feast, a full-body immersion in the sensory pleasures of the cinema. - 100
Variety
Paolo Sorrentino, with Youth, delivers his most tender film to date, an emotionally rich contemplation of life’s wisdom gained, lost and remembered — with cynicism harping from the sidelines, but as a wearied chord rather than a major motif. - 91
Hitfix
Youth has some significant points on frustration of fame, ageism and our natural inclination to lose perspective, but it’s primarily about finding peace and happiness in your life. That may sound painfully obvious. It may even sound cliché. But somehow Sorrentino is able to fashion the film's diverse elements into an emotional narrative that makes it all feel fresh and new. And that’s truly worth celebrating. - 90
Screen Daily
The wry, flamboyant cinematic opera of Paolo Sorrentino reaches new heights of showy, utterly tasteful magnificence in Youth. - 83
IndieWire
With each new twist, Sorrentino is always one step ahead of his audience, building a narrative that skips along at an enthralling pace. - 60
CineVue
The film is often remarkable, gorgeous even - many of the shots in Youth would make excellent closing shots, including the opening shot - and funny. It's a work of wonderful moments, but it's less than momentous and, significantly, you'll never believe a single word of it. This is a pity as the performances are excellent. - 60
The Guardian
Youth has a wan eloquence and elegance, though freighted with sentimentality and a strangely unearned and uninteresting macho-geriatric regret for lost time, lost film projects, lost love and all those beautiful women that you never got to sleep with. - 60
The Telegraph
There are lightning-flashes of pure, ornamental brilliance throughout Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth, although there’s not much happening on the landscape they illuminate.
