This epic elegy to family and country is a towering work of narrative fiction.

Unfolds like a novel full of characters we can't help but care about.

Few films have ever made better use of combining social and political history with romantic melodrama and suspense.

Revealing too much of the narrative would spoil the pleasure of learning where Matteo and Nicola find themselves. "Youth" sells us on the idea that life is a gift and that beauty and rejuvenation can come from even seemingly unbearable lows.