DVD YOUTH DVD

Youth (Dvd)

Youth is a  film written and directed by . It is the director's second English-language film, and stars  and  as best friends who reflect on their lives while holidaying in the . It is a story of the eternal struggle between age and youth, the past and the future, life and death, commitment and betrayal. The cast also includes , , and .

Everything the directors fans expect is here: stunning compositions (with Luca Bigazzi again behind the lensing), a second-to-none understanding of musics emotional range, delightfully unexpected interludes, and a towering performance, this time divided in two (or two-and-a-half, since s brief turn is indelible). In addition, theres a stronger female presence than has been seen since This Must Be the Place. Fellinis influence, especially that of 8½, remains, and while the whole package isnt as demonstrably bravura as Il Divo or The Great Beauty, its more in touch with human experience.

Structurally, Sorrentino continues to craft his films like a composer (making Caines character especially apposite): There are the grand themes, including aging, memory, love and thirst for further fulfillment, and the minor entractes, ranging from spectatorship to the visual pleasure of contrasts, to a near-mystic sense of wonder at beauty in all its forms. And what better locale than the hermetic elements of a spa resort a setting that unmistakably calls to mind Thomas Mann, Anton Chekhov, Last Year at Marienbad and 8 ½,