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Youth (2015)

Drama | 124 minutes
3,43 906 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 124 minuten

Alternative title: La Giovinezza

Country: Italy / France / United Kingdom / Switzerland

Directed by: Paolo Sorrentino

Stars: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel and Rachel Weisz

IMDb score: 7,3 (87.723)

Releasedate: 20 May 2015

Youth plot

Spring. Fred and Mick, two old friends approaching eighty, are on holiday together in a cozy hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor, is retired. Mick, a director, is still active. Knowing that they don't have much time left, the two friends watch with curiosity and tenderness the confused lives of their children, Mick's eager young writers and the other hotel guests, who all have the time they lack. And while Mick is finishing a screenplay for a movie he believes will be his last major, Fred has no intention of returning to his music career. Yet there is someone who at all costs wants to hear his compositions and see him lead an orchestra again.

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Naomi Watts

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Sorrentino's best movie? Perhaps. But certainly his hottest film.

A beautiful film about aging, a reflection on the experiences that have made you richer or poorer. Keitel and especially Caine are great in their roles and the themes are always very palpable and emotional but never sentimental. Sorrentino never gets too pretentious. Sorrentino's techniques are again very functional for the film are 'feel' and 'mood', although it sometimes feels a bit overdone but that is not the case. really a succession of beautiful scenes, but it is mainly the mood that gives the film such a wonderfully energetic momentum.

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wibro

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Although the poster suggested otherwise, this is perhaps the most boring movie I've seen this year. Visually, there were some very nice scenes in it - yes - such as those dream scenes for example and the scenes with the "Führer", but the endless talk of Harvey Keitel and Michael Caine stuck with me at one point. The visitors of the sneak in Arthouse Lux probably thought otherwise, because they rated this film with an average of 8.1. For some visitors it was even the most beautiful film they have ever seen. Not for me and that is not due to my age because I am already over 65 and it seems to me that it is the 50+ target group that this film focuses on.

Look, I'm not so interested in all that looking back to the past. I see it like this; Live in the now, then you live in eternity. Enjoy the beauty like that young woman who walked into the pool naked and forget the rest. We all die once and what comes after, well maybe we can all do it all over again in the next existence.

"Einmal ist keinmal" were the words of Thomas in the book "The Unbearable Lightness of Existence" by Kundera.

"What happens just once might as well not happen at all. If we can only live one life, we might as well not live at all."

Those words could have come from me too. But enough about this. I'm being too philosophical again, but yes, these kinds of films give every reason to do so.

Rating :2.0*.

Unfortunately I can't make anything of it anymore, even though Sorrentino has made one of the most beautiful films ever with "Le Conseguenze dell'Amore" for me.

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cinemanukerke

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It is risky to label it 'masterpiece' immediately after a first vision, but I do it anyway because in the end the film has done what a work of art does, ie move. A film full of inventiveness (that scene where the conductor conducts a piece of music with cowbells and chirping birds is the best I've seen this year), musical beauty and winks (or how should you interpret those scenes with that Maradonna lookalike?). How Sorrentino visualizes his theme, those sliding camera movements in which the confrontation between youth and old age continuously runs through the image (1 eg: a young cyclist doing a wheelie while the 2 old men chat about age-related diseases). I want to let the film sink in for a while but those magnificent images torpedo my mind (the kiss of Weisz and her mountaineer at the end, the discovery when Dano takes on his Hitler role, the appearance of numerous old scenes illustrating the film career of Keitel's muse, that video clip, ...). I don't get any rest, the characters keep me company for a long time. This night belongs to 'The seventh art'. For everyone else : Sleep tight.

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