Review of Youth (2015) by Intrippyentropy — 24 Jun 2019

At one point during "youth", directed by Paolo Sorrentino, a character says, "focus on some insignificant detail." And that's sort of sums up what's wrong with this film. Beautifully shot, well acted, you don't want to quit watching, but the simple-minded dialogue keeps interrupting.

And Harvey keitel's character seems to exist for no other reason but to annoy, with his disagreements and dogmatic utterances. I like watching Michael Caine, who plays an accomplished but retired composer, talk about the past, his regrets, which are interesting, but not inspired as it thinks it is.

I was really looking forward to a short scene with Jane Fonda as an aging Diva telling off a long time director friend. But even though she's good in it, it's not very good. The dialogue is cliched and shallow.

There's a great scene near the end where Harvey Keitel imagines all of his leading ladies speaking lines of dialogue. From all different time periods. It's interesting and cool and meaningful. But you'll probably reach the end of this movie feeling like you didn't get it.

But maybe there wasn't really that much to get.