[REL] La Meglio gioventù (2003)

Post by **Rich** » Tue May 25, 2004 9:32 am 3 likes

La Meglio gioventù (2003)

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Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio) and Matteo (Alessio Boni) Carati are two brothers of Rome, who live the years from 1966 to 2000 and all the events which have signed this period. They begin their adventure, helping Giorgia (Jasmine Trinca), a young girl confined in an asylum. Then, after the flood of Florence, Nicola meets Giulia (Sonia Bergamasco) a talented piano player with a dangerous sympathy for the BR. Alessio, a rebel spirit entered in the police, will find the optimistic photographer Mirella (Maya Sansa). These four characters and many others will cross the years of terrorism and Tangentopoli.

"La meglio gioventù" ("The Best of Youth") is a six-hour Italian TV miniseries (shown in theaters and at festivals as two three-hour films) that traces the lives of two brothers through the last four decades of Italian history. Nicola and Matteo Carati begin as pals and kindred spirits who rescue a deranged girl, Giorgia, and travel with her, intending to go on a great adventure. A miscalculation leads to Giorgia being seized by police and the brothers have a falling out.

Nicola goes to Norway as planned and works for a lumber company but Matteo stays in Italy and joins the army. This opening sequence may seem either original and fresh for a historical series – because it's so odd and personal – or simply quirky and pointless, as well as dreadfully overlong, depending on how you look at it. It has the strengths and weaknesses of the whole series: it's engaging and draws you in emotionally, but it has no real explanations of the people it depicts. The film has rubrics rather than ideas. This is the filmmakers' strategy: they achieve comprehensiveness at the cost of omitting analysis.

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