Just when I thought I had seen anything worthy of ten stars, I discovered "The Best of Youth" and found another.
What a magnificent film! As a starter recommendation, it may be the best expression of positive humanity in film. Marco Tullio Giordana lets his characters breathe softly, their inner thoughts often washing across their faces like sunshine coming out from behind a slow moving cloud.
Yes, we get some Italian dramatics, such as Rosselini or Visconti offered, but those points take a secondary role to the quieter moments.
A hospitalized young girl unable to speak from the fear of electroshock treatments. Another young girl radically committed to change, helping cleanup the mud in Florence, taking her ideology beyond her family to the Red Brigades.
And characters such as Matteo, burdened with himself, unable to express his thoughts, turning from has family's outreached hands.
The knit of personal likes and dislikes, music, travel, art woven through in a fabric that says "I am alive and life is beautiful."
Take the six hours challenge. Find the DVD. Watch Part I and certainly you'll watch Part II and long for more.
What a magnificent film! As a starter recommendation, it may be the best expression of positive humanity in film. Marco Tullio Giordana lets his characters breathe softly, their inner thoughts often washing across their faces like sunshine coming out from behind a slow moving cloud.
Yes, we get some Italian dramatics, such as Rosselini or Visconti offered, but those points take a secondary role to the quieter moments.
A hospitalized young girl unable to speak from the fear of electroshock treatments. Another young girl radically committed to change, helping cleanup the mud in Florence, taking her ideology beyond her family to the Red Brigades.
And characters such as Matteo, burdened with himself, unable to express his thoughts, turning from has family's outreached hands.
The knit of personal likes and dislikes, music, travel, art woven through in a fabric that says "I am alive and life is beautiful."
Take the six hours challenge. Find the DVD. Watch Part I and certainly you'll watch Part II and long for more.