7PM (No Food or Drinks)
Best of Youth, recommended by Leonard Koren, my friend the writer (Wabi-sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers) told me he cried through much the film. He talked about values we have lost. As cultural workers (creators,) we think what we make has value, beneficial for the human spirit. This film reminded him of these values.
– Tom
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 mid-1960s 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.
“Every review of “The Best of Youth” begins with the information that it is six hours long. No good movie is too long, just as no bad movie is short enough. I dropped outside of time and was carried along by the narrative flow; when the film was over, I had no particular desire to leave the theater, and would happily have stayed another three hours. The two-hour limit on most films makes them essentially short stories. “The Best of Youth” is a novel.
The film is ambitious. It wants no less than to follow two brothers and the people in their lives from 1963 to 2000, following them from Rome to Norway to Turin to Florence to Palermo and back to Rome again. The lives intersect with the politics and history of Italy during the period: the hippies, the ruinous flood in Florence, the Red Brigades, kidnappings, hard times and layoffs at Fiat, and finally a certain peace for some of the characters and for their nation.”
– Rodger Ebert
The film is six hours so we will show two hour segments on three consecutive Mondays.
Cinematiki Maui 