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Portland Oregonian by Shawn Levy
In exchange for a small piece of your life, you receive an infinity.
The Best for Last (Die Beste zum Schluss)
User Rating
- Germany
- 2024
- · 89m
Director
Markus Sehr
Cast
Sebastian Ströbel,
Franziska Wulf,
Marie Burchard,
Jürgen Heinrich,
Thurid Funck,
Thias Dertinger,
Ronald Kukulies,
Azizè Flittner,
Claudio Caiolo,
Juan David Mendez
Genre
Comedy,
Romance,
Family,
TV Movie
The life of the Cologne architect Mads is as empty as his apartment. Since the death of his beloved wife, the 44-year-old has only been able to function in a reduced daily routine. A chance reunion with his best friend from his youth changes everything. The cheerful single woman René moves in with him with her children - nine-year-old Lola and six-year-old Oscar. Finally, life is coming back into his life! Although René is not even considering the good-looking, successful guy as a new partner, Mads is growing into the unfamiliar role of the perfect patchwork dad. Friends without benefits, but with children - it works amazingly perfectly! When Mads becomes interested in the fascinating Eva, who is just as cautious as he is, an unwanted complication comes into the lightness of being: René receives a medical diagnosis that requires far-reaching decisions. Although he has other plans, Mads knows what he has to do.
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What are critics saying?
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
Giordana's redemptive vision provides a sense of discovery and a well of hope in the most devastating of troubles, and beautiful surprises in love, friendship and family.
100
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
So in-depth, so appealing, so easy to sit through and so anomalously grand scale that few who see it will ever forget it.
100
Newsweek by David Ansen
Smart, generous, as subtle as it is expansive, this is storytelling of a rare order. Six hours may seem like a big investment, but the emotional pay-back is beyond price.
100
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
It is a luxury to be enveloped in a good film.
100
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
A major cinema event of the year, a masterpiece of Italian film traditions in social/political realism and historical family epic.
100
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Those who see it will, quite frankly, not believe their luck. It is that satisfying, that engrossing, that good.
100
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Like a great novel from a more expansive bygone age, The Best of Youth is full of big thoughts; like a great soap opera, it's also full of sharp plot turns, vibrant characters, and great talk. It is, in short, the best of cinema.
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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
This is epic filmmaking on a profoundly human scale, directed to perfection and magnificently acted by everyone in sight.
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Variety by Scott Foundas
At nearly six hours, pic's extreme length lets Giordana and screenwriters Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli build up a novelistic rhythm, pulling the audience so deeply and forcefully into their story that it becomes like a enveloping dream; when it's over, parting with the characters is truly sweet and sorrowful.
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