Any review of The Best of Youth can’t help but mention its epic length. Originally a mini-series, the film runs a rather encompassing 6 hours, though forgoes the languid pace of similar lengthy features to instead tell a brisk history of two brothers over almost forty years, as well as their family and their respective relationships as they intersect throughout Italy (and elsewhere). While the film touches upon notable periods in Italian culture – the student riots, the 1966 Arno River flood, the red brigades – it’s not a travelogue through history like Forrest Gump, but instead a dissection of
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