Tuesday, March 21, 2006
358 Minutes of Joy
Next time you have six hours to spare, I highly recommend renting "Best of Youth," a wondrous 2003 Italian movie that follows two brothers, a wistful psychologist and a troubled policeman through forty tumultuous years of family life and Italian history. The stories begins in the rebellious 60s and carries us right up to the present day. Despite its epic scope, this film manages to remain intimate, immediate, and engaging throughout. After the first two hours, I was wondering if this would peter out. It didn't. Pictured here: the two brothers reunited, during the Florence floods of 1966, where left-wing students and right-wing soldiers joined forces in a race against time to save the city's fragile cultural treasures - particularly books stored underground - from destruction. 
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