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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
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Marco Tullio Giordana |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 2003 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Miramax |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Foreign, Foreign Film - Italian, Foreign Film [Dub Or Subtitle], International, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 786936291193 |
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Customer Reviews of The Best of Youth
Not perfect, but when the results are so good, who cares? "The best of youth" is a wonderful Italian miniseries directed by Marco Tullio Giordana that we can now watch thanks to this dvd. Truth to be told, this is the kind of great opportunity you simply have to take advantage of. <
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>Why? Because this miniseries entertains, but also allows you to witness some of the things that happened in Italy in the last 50 years, from the point of view of two Italian brothers, Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio) and Matteo (Alessio Boni) Carati. They are both very different, but thanks to them, their friends and girlfriends we can at the very least have a notion of what happened in Italy during those years. Mafia, floods, terrorism (the Red Brigades), corruption, yes, but also the transformation of two young men from starry eyed teenagers to adults that struggle with reality and its challenges, and find different paths in their lives. <
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>All in all, I can say that I loved this miniseries. "The best of youth" lasts approximately 6 hours, but that was not enough, due to the fact that you want to know more about the characters and what is going to happen with them in the future. Of course, this series is far from perfect, but when the results are so good, and manages to transmit so much, who cares?. Highly recommended! <
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>Belen Alcat
Where life is beautiful . . .
This six-hour made-for-TV movie is a drama about a middle class Italian family that covers over 35 years of modern Italian history. Its central characters are two brothers of different temperaments, whose lives take very different paths. The overall message of the film, that life is beautiful, is played out against beautifully photographed travelogue footage that ranges from Turin to Palermo, with side trips to Norway, and a cast of often strikingly photogenic performers. More important, the film's dramatic conflicts, which hold our interest over the length of six hours, include a political dimension as one of the many characters becomes involved in a radical leftist cell, whose mission is to target and assassinate members of the professional and academic elite. The film has been praised for its refusal to simply sensationalize its subject but to humanize all those affected (would-be assassin, potential victim, and police inspector) and represent them with some psychological truth rather than stereotyping them.
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>During the course of the film, a new generation emerges to soften the harsher legacy of recent history and to demonstrate that if life is beautiful it is in its returning promise that the failures of the past need not discourage our hopes for the future. While all of the cast bring to life characters that are plausibly real, the performance of Alessio Boni as the darkly tormented brother Matteo is a standout. The music score ranges from pop music and jazz of the 1960s to haunting compositions by Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla. It's been a long while since we've seen really great cinema from Italy. May this be the beginning of a new wave.
Brilliant
The Best of Youth is a brilliant, poignant and touching account of an Italian family and their trials throughout 3 decades. It's a masterful mini-series and I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in Italy because it goes well beyond what most peoples' preconceived notions of what the Italian people are like. The acting is superb, and every cast member gives a memorable, powerful performance. This story touches on some of the troubles that Italy faced in its past, most notably the terrorist troubles perpetuated by home-grown organization The Red Brigades, a surprisingly unknown group outside of Italy. I would also recommend to those interested in the Marxist-Leninist Red Brigades to watch Good Morning, Night, which portrays the kidnap-murder of Prime Minister Aldo Moro by the Brigades, and the book The Cyclops Hammer, a fictionalized account of the Red Brigades that is based on real events.