Youth

Directed by Paolo Sorrentino

Two old friends (Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel) reflect on their past, present, and the beauty and absurdity of the world during a vacation in the Swiss Alps, in the lovely and heart-warming new film from Academy Award winner Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty). A far happier English language sojourn than This Must Be The Place, the film retains the director’s highly attuned sense of landscape and his ability to translate to sound and image the utter absurdity of the world, but the overall tone here is more of acceptance. Keitel and Caine are terrific and Sorrentino’s use of music is characteristically outstanding.

Duration:
124 minutes

Languages:
English

Country of origin:
France, Great Britain, Italy and Switzerland

Year of production:
2015