# The Best of Youth (2003)

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**Original title**: *La meglio gioventù*
**Runtime**: 367 min
**Genres**: Drama, History, Romance
**Directed by**: Marco Tullio Giordana
**Written by**: Stefano Rulli, Sandro Petraglia
**Starring**: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio Gifuni, Maya Sansa

> *The Possibilities Were Endless...*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

The camera lingers on a Roman summer in 1966 like it’s the last cool breeze before history elbows its way back. Two brothers peel off from a city square, one toward militant students, the other toward quiet domesticity, and the next forty years become a relay of missed exits. It settles for feeling encyclopedic rather than epic.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, slow-burn, tender

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