The Best of Youth

After watching 6+ hours, I didn't want it to end !

The title is misleading. This film is not just about the Best of Youth, it's All of Life. The way it shows us people of all ages, of all classes, and from all walks of life, is quite glorious. This film really loves its characters. It's so well written. The 6 hours are never boring, and once you adapt to the fact that the character arcs have not been designed to fit into 2 hours, the slow pace is very enjoyable. But I do think it lacks an aesthetic touch which prevents it being a real classic.

Well made film that manages to make the 6 hour runtime breeze by rather swiftly, though not without a few hiccups. It never really excels, and simply stacking a whole lot of good solid work for 6 hours doesn't somehow make it into something great. The film changes style and thematic focus relatively often and loses cohesion because of that. A strong interesting achievement but no masterpiece.

Very beautiful and emotional from start to finish, well deserved its long runtime. A small story of an Italian family with all the beauty of Italy entwined in it. Great performances all around and especially from Luigi Lo Cascio as Nicola.

Over-praised and barely passable soap opera that seems to want to present the viewer with a representation of the essence of each of the decades through which it passes, but rarely rises above clichéd melodrama.

712 tane insan üstü tesadüfle pembe dizilerin ve türko dizilerin tahtını yerinden almasını geçiyorum. Aile kavramı hariç çoğu şeyde fikri olmayan, bir alt metni yada anlatısı olmayan filmimizin tek konuda söyleyecek sözü var. O da şu : "solcular katledeceğiniz insanların ve sizlerin ailesi var. siz aile düşmanısınız, canisiniz" işte böyle sığ bir film. Ve bu filme tam puan yapıştıranlar. Size de bir şey demiyorum.

100 degil 110 veriyorum...

I really didn't want this to end; it was so real and moving but never melodramatic.

Great, expansive, sudsy Italian drama wrapped in authentic 20th century turmoil.

A sprawling epic that chronicles the ups and downs of an italian family. It's truly amazing how believable the characters transitions between decades and generations are.

My favorite movie. Watched it in 2016.

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aileden biri gibi...

Wonderful story and acting

Earns its 6 hours running time by telling an engrossing story with compelling characters.

Six months after watching this, I still remember some of the vivid scenes. Some parts were dragging along, other parts were great. A very naturalistic film.

last third dragged a bit

(...)Von mir aus hätte La Meglio Gioventu noch drei Stunden andauern dürfen. Ist es nicht so, dass die Begrenzung von zwei Stunden aus den meisten Filmen Kurzgeschichten werden lässt? Hier aber kommt ein Roman!(...)

Definetly worth your watchtime.

(2nd viewing)

Coming of age in 60-80s Italy.

6 hours!

Beautiful, moving, very well-acted, flies by in 6 hours.

Incredible. It's been worth (almost) every minute.

Sort of an Italian equivalent to the second and third Heimat series; highly watchable despite the length but nothing incredible to warrant any returns. The time frames are also identical but I'm sure the real reason I make the comparison is because I watched both of them recently.

"This epic elegy to family and country is a towering work of narrative fiction." - Ed Gonzalez

Ambitious and successful; a wonderful combination.

Impressive and engaging. Six hours well spent.

Always enthralling, sometimes puzzling modern day Italian epic. The story goes in so many directions that it is a difficult one to pinpoint, but I really have to commend them for somehow bottling a zeitgeist into a three-part miniseries.

Should have been longer.

Starts great, gets really draggy and boring in the middle, and then gets great at the end again. Yet another film that should have been edited down to be tighter and consistently good. Still, it's a well worth seeing as long as you are willing to hang with its slow midsection.

The desire to track a country's recent development through the lens of a single family is a noble gesture. Girodana's focus on the faces (and especially the eyes) of his actors injects a bit of soul into the proceedings. However, the broad scope leaves the film feeling a bit like an overanxious tour guide--it wants to show us so much that we don't have enough of an opportunity to dwell in one place long enough, to contemplate what it all means, leaving this enjoyable film feeling a bit slight.