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The Best of Youth (TV Miniseries)

La meglio gioventù (The Best of Youth)

2003

Marco Tullio Giordana

Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti ...

8.0

6,765

TV Series. Drama. Romance "La Meglio Gioventù" tells the story of an Italian family from the late sixties to the present day. It focuses on two brothers, Nicola and Matteo. They share the same hopes, the same dreams, they enjoy the same books and friends, until an encounter with a disturbed young woman, Giorgia, decides the fate of both of them. Nicola decides to become a psychiatrist, Matteo abandons his studies to become a policeman. "La Meglio Gioventù" is ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"I dropped outside of time and was carried along by the narrative flow (...) When you hear that it is six hours long, reflect that it is therefore also six hours deep (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Neil Smith BBC	"A towering achievement that leaves you drained, moved, and overwhelmed (...) A cinematic landmark (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Derek Malcolm The Guardian	"It is clearly an achievement of which Italian cinema can be very proud"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"The sure sense of time and place in Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli's complex but beautifully lucid script and the visceral depth and subtlety of the performances result in classical storytelling of the highest order."	POS
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"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"	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"[Giordana] has an uncanny instinct for effacement, reaffirming and blurring everyone’s search for both a national and personal identity (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"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 (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"Marco Tullio Giordana's expansive yet intimate epic registers the full weight of human experience (...) Giordana has created a hearty, complete picture"	POS
United States	Richard Schickel Time	"One of the truly memorable movie experiences of recent times (...) [An] elegantly believable, totally compelling narrative flow"	POS
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"A masterpiece of Italian film traditions in social/political realism and historical family epic (...) It's unusually generous in its portrayal of varying world views (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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