History Film / TheBestOfYouth

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* TurnOfTheMillennium: Where the movie ends.

* TurnOnTheMillennium: Where the movie ends.

Mixing both drama and a Generational Saga, with a vast EnsembleCast, a compelling and emotional story focused on the Caratis chronicles dealing with Italian's social, political and generational transformations from the late 60s to the 2000s, ''The Best of Youth" received wide acclaim both critics and audience-wise and was awarded under the section ''Un Certain Regard" at the 56th edition of Cannes Film Festival in 2003.

''The Best of Youth'' is a six-hour-long Italian epic that crosses from the 1960s to the 2000s. It is about the Roman Carati family, more specifically on the two brothers Nicola and Matteo. The movie starts in summer 1966 right when Nicola and Matteo are about to attend exams at their university (the former studies medicine while the latter literature). For his part-time job, Matteo is asked to keep company to Giorgia, a girl hospitalized in a local psychiatric clinic where she has been treated with elettroshock. The decision to make her escape that place and take her to her family completely changes the brothers' plans for summer holidays, as they intended to go to Norway with some friends. They don't know it already, but this is going to set the start for a long series of events that will accompany them in the following years.
Mixing both drama and a generational plot, with a vast cast, a compelling and emotional story focused on the Caratis chronicles dealing with Italian's social, political and generational transformations from the late 60s to the 2000s, ''The Best of Youth" received wide acclaim both critics and audience-wise and was awarded under the section ''Un Certain Regard" at the 56th edition of Cannes Film Festival in 2003.

''The Best of Youth'' is a six-hour-long Italian epic that crosses from the 1960s to the 2000s. It is about the Roman Carati family, more specifically on the two brothers Nicola and Matteo. The movie starts in summer 1966 right when Nicola and Matteo are about to attend exams at their university (the former studies medicine while the latter literature). Matteo is asked to keep company to Giorgia, a girl hospitalized in a local psychiatric clinic where she has been treated with elettroshock. The decision to make her escape that place and take her to her family completely changes the brothers' plans for summer holidays, as they intended to go to Norway with some friends. They don't know it already, but this is going to set the start for a long series of events that will accompany them in the following years.

''The Best of Youth'' is a six-hour-long Italian epic that crosses from the 1960s to the 2000s. It is about the roman Carati family, more specifically on the two brothers Nicola and Matteo. The movie starts in summer 1966 right when Nicola and Matteo are about to attend exams at their university (the former studies medicine while the latter literature). Matteo is asked to keep company to Giorgia, a girl hospitalized in a local psychiatric clinic where she has been treated with elettroshock. The decision to make her escape that place and take her to her family completely changes the brothers' plans for summer holidays, as they intended to go to Norway with some friends. They don't know it already, but this is going to set the start for a long series of events that will accompany them in the following years.

''The Best of Youth'' is a six-hour-long Italian epic that crosses from the 1960s to the 2000s. It is about the roman Caraty family, more specifically on the two brothers Nicola and Matteo. The movie starts in summer 1966 right when Nicola and Matteo are about to attend exams at their university (the former studies medicine while the latter literature). Matteo is asked to keep company to Giorgia, a girl hospitalized in a local psychiatric clinic where she has been treated with elettroshock. The decision to make her escape that place and take her to her family completely changes the brothers' plans for summer holidays, as they intended to go to Norway with some friends. They don't know it already, but this is going to set the start for a long series of events that will accompany them in the following years.

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''The Best of Youth'' is a six-hour-long Italian epic that crosses from the 1960s to the 2000s. It is about two brothers, Matteo and Nicola, who break a young girl out of a mental ward, only for her to be recaptured. This affects the rest of the boys' lives, as Matteo joins the army and Nicola becomes a hippie, then gets married and has a daughter. But his wife leaves him, and becomes an extremist.

Despite having a girlfriend of his own, Matteo becomes increasingly depressed and things get worse from there. The film ends on a redemptive note.

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* ArcWords: ''Tutto è bello''[[note]]''Everything is beautiful.''[[/note]]

* SloganYellingMegaphoneGuy: '''Giulia:''' ''Via via la polizia! Via via la polizia!''

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