The Best of Youth(La meglio gioventú)

The New York Times by Dana Stevens

Full of nuance and complexity, but it is also as accessible and engrossing as a grand 19th-century novel.

Slate by David Edelstein

The Best of Youth doesn't have a boring millisecond. It isn't an art film, with longueurs; it's a mini-series with the sweep of a classic novel, with tons of plot.

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.

New York Daily News by Jami Bernard

After all the observations on heartache, politics, art, commerce, passion, identity, mortality, even mental health, six hours begin to seem downright compact.

Village Voice by Jessica Winter

The movie has the addictive episodic intimacy of great TV.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Rarely have six hours spent doing ANYTHING seemed so rewarding.

The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt

Lo Cascio and Boni inhabit their roles with keen intellectual and emotional vigor.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

The acting is electric. By the end of this haunting, hypnotic film, you feel you have watched lives being lived, not just imagined.

New York Post by Russell Scott Smith

All the pieces converge in a powerful rush during the second half.

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.