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	List Price: $29.99 Our Price: $21.99 Your Save: $ 8.00 ( 27% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Miramax Starring: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio Gifuni Directed By: Marco Tullio Giordana
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Buena Vista Home Video EAN: 9780788860461 Format: Closed-captioned ISBN: 0788860461 Label: Miramax Manufacturer: Miramax Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Miramax Region Code: 1 Release Date: 2006-02-07 Running Time: 368 Studio: Miramax Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Editorial Reviews: In the award-winning epic tradition of THE GODFATHER and COLD MOUNTAIN THE BEST OF YOUTH has wowed critics and earned honors at numerous film festivals worldwide. As Italy explodes in an era of social unrest a single ill-fated incident sends the lives of equally idealistic brothers Nicola and Matteo Carati careening in opposite directions. Divided by politics but bonded by blood the next 40 years will find the brothers divergent paths intersecting through some of the most tumultuous events in recent history! A stunning cinematic achievement you don t want to miss this incredible motion picture!System Requirements:Running Time 400 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 786936291193 Manufacturer No: 04083600
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: The Best of Youth Comment: I loved this miniseries. The subtitles were succinct so that I didn't miss any of the action by reading the subtitles. The six and a half hours went by quickly, so quickly that I watched the movie twice, straight through. Excellent story line, great scenes, terrific characters -- and the real reason I bought movie -- the beautiful villa in the last 30 minutes is the very same villa in Tuscany where my husband and I have stayed twice! Customer Rating: Summary: The best italian movie in many years Comment: This is a real amazing work of art. It's a very touching melodrama, historically interesting and dramatically powerful. It tells the story of two brothers in parallel with the History of Italy in the last 40 years of the 20th. Century. A warning: probably you might feel that it's slow moving in the first two hours. However, you should wait for what is coming. The last hour is so moving that you'll need more than a handkerchief. The acting of the whole cast is superb, as well as the photography and the music, including popular songs from each decade. Simply marvellous! If you've lived and remember the decades of the sixties and nineties, this movie is for you. An authentic masterpiece that you will want to admire more than once. If ten stars existed, I would give them all. Customer Rating: Summary: Truly spectacular, moving, humane Comment: "The Best of Youth" is a six-hour mini-series that follows the fortunes of an Italian family from the 1960s almost to the present. It is an amazing experience for the viewer. It's like a cinematographic version of "War and Peace" with a lovely, slow, thoughtful and ultimately moving love story at its heart. The movie is based around the experiences of two brothers who go through a seminal experience together when they are young students and react in very different ways. One joins the army and then the police; the other becomes a child psychiatrist. We also meet their friends, an economist and a builder. As the lens widens, we are drawn into a loving family circle. Every character is so precisely etched we feel we know them -- the speculator father, teacher mother, two sisters...I have to add here that the acting is uniformly superb. The music that accompanies the action is also brilliant and of course the photography and depiction of Italy are stunning. I'm not Italian so some of the events they live through don't have the same resonance for me -- the threat of the Red Brigades who engaged in urban terrorism for example. Here is a group of people who live through tragedy and yet survive. I was tremendously struck by the general attitude of the movie -- compassionate, understanding and yet it takes a clear moral stance. These aren't heroes -- just ordinary people doing their best. Not all of them succeed -- there are some tragic failures here -- but most perservere, working through the bad times to celebrate the good. This is a wonderful, wonderful movie. You'll laugh, you'll cry. See it! Customer Rating: Summary: The Best of Youth Comment: My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed this epic of real Italian life. the storyline and acting was accurate, believable and absorbing. We watched the first DVD and ate dinner and discussed it thoroughly and impatiently rushed to watch the second half. Happy to report the ending was pleasing....really did not want a sad ending with this movie. It really depicted Italian life, feelings, family and love. Highly recommend it.. Customer Rating: Summary: fantastic film Comment: This is one of the "great" movies...it runs through the history of modern italy, with a wide range of characters and locations. At times it is very moving,,,,but it is long - 6 hours, but well worth it. It was originally shown on Italian TV over 3 nights (2 hours each) and in the U.S. in the cinema as two 3-hour parts. I went to see the first part with the intention of seeing the second part the following day but instead stayed throught the entire 6 hours and wasn't bored for a minute. More Reviews