The Best of Youth

Entertainment Reviews:

New York Times - 03/02/2005

"The director, Marco Tullio Giordana, is motivated by generosity -- toward both his characters and his audience..."

Rolling Stone - 03/10/2005

"The acting is electric. By the end of this haunting, hypnotic film, you feel you have watched lives being lived, not just imagined."

Entertainment Weekly - 03/18/2005

"[F]ull of sharp plot turns, vibrant characters, and great talk. It is, in short, the best of cinema."

Los Angeles Times - 03/182/005

"Intimate, epochal, quietly unforgettable, THE BEST OF YOUTH defies logic and expectation."

Chicago Sun-Times - 04/01/2005

"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 - 12/30/2005

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."

Rolling Stone - 02/23/2006

"[T]he film delivers complex performances missing from most American cinema."