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The Best of Youth

The Possibilities Were Endless...

2003 · 6h 7m · R Drama, History, Romance
Directed by Marco Tullio Giordana

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After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.

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94%
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Fresh

Unfolds like a novel full of characters we can't help but care about.

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Fresh

When the movie concludes, you can talk about these characters as if you actually know them -- which won't be far from the truth.

Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
Fresh

Few films have ever made better use of combining social and political history with romantic melodrama and suspense.

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Fresh

Its point is this: That every nation, like a family, is made up of many people who are often at odds with one another, but that ultimately, we are all one.

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Fresh

A family that seems as real as your own relatives.

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

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