
Fred and Mick, two old friends, are on vacation in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a movie director, is still working. They look with curiosity and tenderness on their children's confused lives, Mick's enthusiastic young writers, and the other hotel guests. While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important movie, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. But... (Full plot summary below)
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Fred and Mick, two old friends, are on vacation in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a movie director, is still working. They look with curiosity and tenderness on their children's confused lives, Mick's enthusiastic young writers, and the other hotel guests. While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important movie, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. But someone wants at all costs to hear him conduct again.
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| Times (UK)Kate MuirIt's a visual banquet of a film, which meditates on ageing with wit and tenderness. |
| NewcityRay PrideWith toppling confidence, and an unstoppably lapidary style, candied, swooning, Youth follows 8 1/2 as surely as his Oscar-winning The Great Beauty followed La Dolce Vita... The camera tracks and glides. |
| RogerEbert.comBarbara ScharresSorrentino packs the film with entrancing images. |
| Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyYouth is a voluptuary’s feast, a full-body immersion in the sensory pleasures of the cinema. |
| What CultureAlex Leadbeater[Michael Caine] reaffirms his versatility as an actor and, in tackling an issue that can't help but be near the forefront of his mind, delivers something evocatively raw. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperThough stylized and eccentric and non-linear in its narrative path, and filled with dazzling non-sequiturs and oddly cryptic storylines, Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth is indeed set on this Earth, and these characters are very much alive. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeThe best film of the year has arrived - a grand banquet of sight and sound that is at once funny and tragic. This is an absolute must-see. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA distinctive and alluring blend of soul searching and philosophical musings amid the challenges of conscious aging. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaSymphonic and cinematic, full of melancholy and hushed magic. |
| Fan The FireMartin RobertsDoes Sorrentino attempt to tackle too much in this film? Possibly, though I would rather see a director experimenting with too many ideas than scraping the barrel with too few. Youth is a rich and rewarding experience. |