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100It is a luxury to be enveloped in a good film.
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88The acting is electric. By the end of this haunting, hypnotic film, you feel you have watched lives being lived, not just imagined.
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100So in-depth, so appealing, so easy to sit through and so anomalously grand scale that few who see it will ever forget it.
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100This is epic filmmaking on a profoundly human scale, directed to perfection and magnificently acted by everyone in sight.
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100Like a great novel from a more expansive bygone age, The Best of Youth is full of big thoughts; like a great soap opera, it's also full of sharp plot turns, vibrant characters, and great talk. It is, in short, the best of cinema.
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88A slowly flowering miracle: an epic of normal life.
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100Those who see it will, quite frankly, not believe their luck. It is that satisfying, that engrossing, that good.
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90The story unfolds at such length and over so many years that politics tend to fade into the wallpaper, leaving an exceptionally rich family story.
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100In exchange for a small piece of your life, you receive an infinity.
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100A major cinema event of the year, a masterpiece of Italian film traditions in social/political realism and historical family epic.
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88After all the observations on heartache, politics, art, commerce, passion, identity, mortality, even mental health, six hours begin to seem downright compact.
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90This is a graceful and enveloping feat of filmmaking.
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100Giordana's redemptive vision provides a sense of discovery and a well of hope in the most devastating of troubles, and beautiful surprises in love, friendship and family.
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90And like all great family sagas, The Best of Youth, while tipping its hat to the painful confusion of living life forward, reels it backward to give it the thrilling significance of time and place.
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90The 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.
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100Smart, generous, as subtle as it is expansive, this is storytelling of a rare order. Six hours may seem like a big investment, but the emotional pay-back is beyond price.
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90The Best of Youth takes its chance--almost unheard of, these days--to bloom and unfurl like a novel.
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90At 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.
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CristinaA10Gripping, wonderful story, great acting. I didn't want it to end.