"Best of Youth"
2003
Directed by Marco Tullio Giordano

As sweeping in breadth as a 19th-century novel and intimately observed as a great short story, Marco Tullio Giordano's six-hour drama chronicles the lives of two brothers over the course of four decades. Their triumphs and tragedies reflect the highs and lows of Italian political, economic, and social life from 1966 to the present, and Giordano draws these connections with nuance and lyricism. "Those who see it will, quite frankly, not believe their luck. It is that satisfying, that engrossing, that good" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times). Italian with English subtitles.  400 minutes.