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Youth

Youth - La giovinezza

2015

Paolo Sorrentino

Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano ...

7.0

20,858

Drama Youth is the story of Fred Ballinger (Michael Caine), a great orchestra conductor on holiday in a hotel in the Alps with his daughter Lena and friend, Mick, a director who is finding his latest film difficult to wrap up. Fred gave up on his music career years ago, but someone is determined for him to conduct again. From London, a Queen Elizabeth II emissary arrives, asking him to head an orchestra at Buckingham Palace for Prince Philip’s birthday. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel do some of the best work of their long careers in Paolo Sorrentino’s witty, wise and swooningly beautiful dramatic comedy "Youth""	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Sorrentino could try harder (...) A diverting, minor work, tweaked up with funny ideas (...) There are brilliant flourishes here that could only have come from Sorrentino (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Jessica Kiang IndieWire	"A movie that deals almost exclusively in simplistic oppositions: age against youth, beauty against ugliness (...) There is no shading, there is no ambiguity, and while there are observations and stilted epithets aplenty, there is precious little wisdom.	NEG
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Paolo Sorrentino (...) delivers his most tender film to date, an emotionally rich contemplation of life’s wisdom."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Youth will be, for some, entirely intoxicating in the way it forges its immense visual richness, musical intensity, actorly precision and unpretentious approach to thematic concerns."	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin 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. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"It opens up the pores with ravishing images and rubs in soothing musical ointments, occasionally varying the treatment with a bracing splash of cold drama, served by immaculately groomed actor-assistants."	POS
United Kingdom	Dave Calhoun Time Out	"The ring of truth sounds quietly, and sometimes not at all (...) the Italian auteur's occasionally dazzling but low-key and rambling follow-up to 2013's 'The Great Beauty'. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The problem with 'Youth' is not that it’s empty (...) but that it’s small. Its imagination feels shrunken and secondhand, in spite of the gorgeous vistas and beautiful naked women."	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Fasten your seat belts for Jane Fonda, who gives a seismic jolt to Paolo Sorrentino's exquisite meditation on art and aging. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS

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