Maybe life is not what we wanted, but the best of our youth remains indelible and incisive. Public and private permeate naturally into the Best of Youth, the source of poetic license (Pasolini) is regenerated in an intriguing family melodrama (Fassbinder). The originality of the screenplay is also in the dramatic weight given to psychiatry (alternate title "the best psychiatry?) That the film" dares "to propose as the key to a generational shift as that plagued the 60s to today: the need order that leads to nihilism, the acceptance of incompleteness and randomness as a way to harmony esistenziale.Si starts from '66 when Nicola Carati (Luigi Lo Cascio), a young medical student brilliantly passed an examination and is about the mythical journey to the north, with brother Matteo (Alessio Boni) and friends Carlo (Fabrizio Giufini) and Berto. But the party falls apart before departure. Matthew and Nicole decide to take care of Giorgia (Jasmine Trinca), a disturbed young man with the psyche, that Matthew has seen volunteering in hospital when they discovered the brutality electroshock, kidnaps her, but she travels with the two brothers did not lead nowhere. Giorgia is "recovery" by the institutions; Matthew, no longer intend to travel, he enlisted in the police while Nicola, left alone at last, arrived in Sweden, found a job as a carpenter, he finds the experience of a different life, free and alternative. But when, on television, Arno sees images that overwhelm Florence, now back in Italy ...
is the structure of The Best of Youth: the audience that creeps in private, the personal story that evolves on the input of current calendar. The flood of '67 followed by other key events: the student revolt, the deaths of terrorism, the reform of asylum Basaglia the Capaci massacre, the scandal of Tangentopoli. And the tremors of this syncretically are reflected in the life of Nicola and Matteo and their relatives and friends, reveal themselves in situations, relationships, dramas that Jordan knows how to make movies and made coinvolgente.Interpretazioni memorable, heartfelt realism ... Among the Animals (The House Of The Rising Sun) and Astor Piazzolla (Oblivion), between the underground Turin humanity and familiarity of the chaotic capital, during nearly four decades, director and screenplay (Rulli and Petraglia) saturate in a deep emotion schermica , joys and tragedies of a host of unforgettable characters, plots calibrated between the "small" and "big" story: When the mud of Florence Nicholas knows his Giulia (Sonia Bergamasco), icy piano, the insane utopia of the armed struggle the relentlessly rips his affection and that of daughter Sara, a career in the judiciary's sister Giovanna (Lidia Vitale) bears witness to the mafia violence (murder Borsellino), the highest office in the Bank of Italy reached by Charles (now married to her younger sister Francesca - Valentina Carnelutti) puts him in the crosshairs of the BR, Vitale (Claudio Joey), the working-class friend, suffers dismissal FIAT but it can rebuild its position with a construction company, Nicola, said psychiatrist, finds Giorgia segregated, abused, in one of the infamous pseudomediche structures of the capital. Meanwhile Dad
Carats (Andrea Tidona) died of cancer and mother Adriana (Adriana Asti), Professor impeccable, tend to live alone the agony of his grief. Yes, because the fulcrum, tearing, of The Best of Youth is in the character of Matthew, after living with rigor suffered the years of youth revolt (from the police), appeared to land to the happiness in the meeting with Mirella (Maya Sansa) librarian-photographer. But his personality is not troubled peace: the suicide scene is looming brevity (the shoes left on the terrace), the sequence of the funeral, with that tangle of dark umbrellas "open" to let the shiny coffin , is a real gem.
To weave the web of all the events remains, always, the exemplary figure of Nicola: university student enterprising and open-mindedness, the loving husband who, to save her life, RB's wife delivered to the police, the loving father who lives alone with his daughter, the psychiatrist with patients Basaglia loving but unable to perceive the deep anguish of his brother, the son who does not neglect the old lonely mother's destroyed by the pain, ' sweet man and confident ("all that exists is beautiful") who receives "inherited" a woman who will finally happy, the citizen knows that shocked even in the face of hypocrisy and cruelty of a lazy society and autoassolutoria, who practices more and more cynicism and less solidarity. The story of Nicholas (and The Best of Youth) is enclosed in two dialogues of symbolic efficiency: the opening, during the examination at the university, the professor warns him "to leave this country ... is a beautiful country and useless, to be destroyed everything stays the same and still, in the hands of the dinosaurs "in the last part when, as a psychiatrist, he went to prison for assisting an arrest of this ruling clean hands" is Italy that made our fathers, I believe "and Nicholas replies" no, not my father, I believe she ...".
