The Best of Youth

The Best of Youth Italian La meglio giovent , is a 2003 Italian film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. Originally planned as a fourpart miniseries, it was presented at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Un Certain Regard award. It was then given a theatrical release in Italy in two threehour parts in whichminutes were edited out. The complete version was aired in Italy from Decemberto 15, 2003 on Rai Uno in four parts.

The Best of Youth is a family saga set in Italy from 1966 through 2003. It chronicles the life of an Italian family, the Caratis, but focuses primarily on two brothers, Matteo Alessio Boni and Nicola Luigi Lo Cascio, documenting their journey from the prime of their wild youth in the mid1960s counterculture, to parenthood and retirement in the early 2000s. The film aims to show the interaction of the personal and the political, the ways in which small events may become turning points in the important choices made by individuals.Two brothers go their separate ways after attempting to rescue a young girl, Giorgia Jasmine Trinca, from an abusive sanitarium. The brothers are Matteo and Nicola Carati Alessio Boni and Luigi Lo Cascio. Their parents are Angelo Andrea Tidona and Adriana Adriana Asti, their older sister is Giovanna Lidia Vitale, and their younger sister is Francesca Valentina Carnelutti. Their friends, their lovers and others drift through, including Giorgia who struggles with mental issues, but whose life seems to follow in parallel. ........

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