History Film / TheBestOfYouth

* SpaghettiAndGondolas: Quiet {{Downplayed}} compared to other movies and properties, but surely this movie might inspire you to visit some of Italy's art cities, not forgetting its islands.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Angelo thinking homosexuality to be some mental illness. Nicola promptly denies it.

* EpicMovie: With its over six-hour runtime, a huge EnsembleCast and a plot covering over thirty years folding through an impressive GenerationalSaga mixed with Italian history from the second half of 20th century, this movie certainly qualifies as an epic, although it falls more under the same cathegory of such intimate epic movies as Edward Yang's Film/ABrighterSummerDay, focusing not so much on visual spectacle but more on the vastness of its scale and emotional storyline.

* SloganYellingMegaphoneGuy: '''Giulia:''' ''Via via la polizia! Via via la polizia!'' [[note]] ''Away the police!'' [[/note]]

* OutlivingOneSOffspring: [[spoiler: Adriana outlives Matteo]].

* OutlivingOne'sOffspring: [[spoiler: Adriana outlives Matteo]].

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler:'''Sara:''' ''[to Giulia]'' You all wanted to put everything to fire and sword and now you need to ask for permission to play?]] (See CallingTheOldWomanOut below).

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [spoiler:'''Sara:''' ''[to Giulia]'' You all wanted to put everything to fire and sword and now you need to ask for permission to play?]] (See CallingTheOldWomanOut below).

%%* AloofOlderBrother: Matteo.

* CallingTheOldWomanOut: Well, [[spoiler: as a young adult Sara surely is rather disappointed by Giulia's refusal to play something at the organ for her, especially after hearing her mother's poor excuses not to do so. This makes Giulia realize her mistake and luckly she plays for her daughter shortly after]].

* FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother: Francesca when she was a little girl.

* EpicMovie: With its over six-hour runtime, a huge EnsembleCast and a plot covering over thirty years folding through an impressive GenerationalSaga mixed with Italian history from the second half of 20th century, this movie certainly qualifies as an epic, although it falls more under the same cathegory of such intimate epic movies as Edward Yang's ABrighterSummerDay, focusing not so much on visual spectacle but more on the vastness of its scale and emotional storyline.

* RetroactiveRecognition: A young RiccardoScamarcio plays [[spoiler: Andrea]] after the timeskip to the 2000s.

* UnkeptBeauty: Both Nicola and Matteo in the 60s, as two young men of that period and being influenced (albeit differently) by those years' fashion and ideology. The contrast between the two is rather poignant when they meet in Florence after the Arno flood in 1966: Matteo is now a militar while Nicola has embraced the 60s new ideologies during his period in Norway and after the encounters he made. He also grew his beard, although he gets rid of it later in the movie.

* BeehiveHairdo: A young woman in the summer 1966 opening sports a rather tall one.

* CameraFiend: Mirella before becoming an actual photographer.

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* SloganYellingMegaphoneGuy: '''Giulia:''' ''Via via la polizia! Via via la polizia!'' [[note]] ''Away the police!'' [[/note]]