Synopsis
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lives of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family take different directions, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
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Cast
- Luigi Lo CascioNicola Carati
- Alessio BoniMatteo Carati
- Adriana AstiAdriana Carati
- Sonia BergamascoGiulia Monfalco
- Fabrizio GifuniCarlo Tommasi
- Maya SansaMirella Utano
- Valentina CarneluttiFrancesca Carati
- Jasmine TrincaGiorgia Esposti
- Andrea TidonaAngelo Carati
- Lidia VitaleGiovanna Carati
Recommendations
- 100
Christian Science Monitor
This is epic filmmaking on a profoundly human scale, directed to perfection and magnificently acted by everyone in sight. - 90
Variety
At nearly six hours, pic's extreme length lets Giordana and screenwriters Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli build up a novelistic rhythm, pulling the audience so deeply and forcefully into their story that it becomes like a enveloping dream; when it's over, parting with the characters is truly sweet and sorrowful. - 90
Slate
The Best of Youth doesn't have a boring millisecond. It isn't an art film, with longueurs; it's a mini-series with the sweep of a classic novel, with tons of plot. - 88
Rolling Stone
The acting is electric. By the end of this haunting, hypnotic film, you feel you have watched lives being lived, not just imagined. - 88
New York Daily News
After all the observations on heartache, politics, art, commerce, passion, identity, mortality, even mental health, six hours begin to seem downright compact. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Lo Cascio and Boni inhabit their roles with keen intellectual and emotional vigor. - 80
Village Voice
The movie has the addictive episodic intimacy of great TV. - 80
The New York Times
Full of nuance and complexity, but it is also as accessible and engrossing as a grand 19th-century novel.
