Very beautiful and emotional from start to finish, well deserved its long runtime. A small story of an Italian family with all the beauty of Italy entwined in it. Great performances all around and especially from Luigi Lo Cascio as Nicola.

"This epic elegy to family and country is a towering work of narrative fiction." - Ed Gonzalez

I really didn't want this to end; it was so real and moving but never melodramatic.

Ambitious and successful; a wonderful combination.

After watching 6+ hours, I didn't want it to end !

Well made film that manages to make the 6 hour runtime breeze by rather swiftly, though not without a few hiccups. It never really excels, and simply stacking a whole lot of good solid work for 6 hours doesn't somehow make it into something great. The film changes style and thematic focus relatively often and loses cohesion because of that. A strong interesting achievement but no masterpiece.

6 glorious hours and I wish there was so much more...

The title is misleading. This film is not just about the Best of Youth, it's All of Life. The way it shows us people of all ages, of all classes, and from all walks of life, is quite glorious. This film really loves its characters. It's so well written. The 6 hours are never boring, and once you adapt to the fact that the character arcs have not been designed to fit into 2 hours, the slow pace is very enjoyable. But I do think it lacks an aesthetic touch which prevents it being a real classic.

Starts great, gets really draggy and boring in the middle, and then gets great at the end again. Yet another film that should have been edited down to be tighter and consistently good. Still, it's a well worth seeing as long as you are willing to hang with its slow midsection.

A sprawling epic that chronicles the ups and downs of an italian family. It's truly amazing how believable the characters transitions between decades and generations are.

Passable melodrama.

Great, expansive, sudsy Italian drama wrapped in authentic 20th century turmoil.

Should have been longer.

Impressive and engaging. Six hours well spent.

Always enthralling, sometimes puzzling modern day Italian epic. The story goes in so many directions that it is a difficult one to pinpoint, but I really have to commend them for somehow bottling a zeitgeist into a three-part miniseries.