Rolling Stone, 02/23/2006, p.74, "[T]he film delivers complex performances missing from most American cinema."
New York Times, 03/02/2005, p.E8, "The director, Marco Tullio Giordana, is motivated by generosity -- toward both his characters and his audience..."
Los Angeles Times, 03/182/005, p.E1, "Intimate, epochal, quietly unforgettable, THE BEST OF YOUTH defies logic and expectation."
Rolling Stone, 03/10/2005, p.119, "The acting is electric. By the end of this haunting, hypnotic film, you feel you have watched lives being lived, not just imagined."
Chicago Sun-Times, 04/01/2005, p.30, "It is a luxury to be enveloped in a good film, and to know there's a lot more of it -- that it is not moving inexorably toward an ending you can anticipate, but moving indefinitely into a future that is free to be shaped in surprising ways."
Entertainment Weekly, 03/18/2005, p.44-45, "[F]ull of sharp plot turns, vibrant characters, and great talk. It is, in short, the best of cinema."
Entertainment Weekly, 12/30/2005, p.119, Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Films Of The Year -- "[S]atisfying as a fat novel, piquant as a soap opera, and instantly engrossing."
Title Note
Theatrical Release: MARCH 2, 2005 (NY/LA)
Distributor Note
The Best Of Youth
In the award-winning epic tradition of THE GODFATHER and COLD MOUNTAIN, THE BEST OF YOUTH has wowed critics and earned honors at numerous film festivals worldwide. As Italy explodes in an era of social unrest, a single ill-fated incident sends the lives of equally idealistic brothers Nicola and Matteo Carati careening in opposite directions. Divided by politics but bonded by blood, the next 40 years will find the brothers? divergent paths intersecting through some of the most tumultuous events in recent history! A stunning cinematic achievement, you don?t want to miss this incredible motion picture!
Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Release Note
DVD Features:
Region 1 Keep Case
Product Notes
In this 6-hour-long drama, two Italian brothers struggle to find their way in the world, each choosing a different path--one goes abroad and becomes a psychiatrist, the other stays in Italy and becomes a policeman.
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