Review of Youth (2015) by Nicholasbert — 03 Jan 2016

While The Great Beauty had a great deal of charm, fuelled by visuals and philosophical talk, Youth starts on the same premise but ends up in a different direction: that of empty vanity. Sure, visuals are still good, but they lack the mysticism of its predecessor, and the depth.

One is left wondering (without much urge to do so, though) what exactly is the purpose of this: multiple secondary characters don't come to a resolution, and we don't get why they were featured so prominently, then. Moreover, the philosophical level of the questions raised is common knowledge, something anybody could see and understand.

All in all, Youth comes off as pretentious and pointless; one could say, it's a visual exercise - but in the history of cinema visual exercises have been a-plenty, and much more focused.