Movie Description 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.
| Credits | | Producer: | Angelo Barbagallo | | Cast: | Adriana Asti, Jasmine Trinca, Maya Sansa |
Editorial Reviews "The director, Marco Tullio Giordana, is motivated by generosity -- toward both his characters and his audience..." New York Times - A. O. Scott (03/02/2005)
"The acting is electric. By the end of this haunting, hypnotic film, you feel you have watched lives being lived, not just imagined." Rolling Stone - Peter Travers (03/10/2005)
"[F]ull of sharp plot turns, vibrant characters, and great talk. It is, in short, the best of cinema." Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum (03/18/2005)
"Intimate, epochal, quietly unforgettable, THE BEST OF YOUTH defies logic and expectation." Los Angeles Times - Kenneth Turan
"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." Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (04/01/2005)
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." Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum (12/30/2005)
"[T]he film delivers complex performances missing from most American cinema." Rolling Stone - Barry Walters (02/23/2006)
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