EW: With 2008’s Il Divo and 2013’s The Great Beauty, playful Italian director Paolo Sorrentino made his homeland’s politics and passions dance to life by mixing pop philosophy and louche sensuality. His latest film, ironically titled Youth, is a meditation on aging set at a luxury spa in the Swiss Alps (not too far, one suspects, from Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel—or at least the latest Ricola commercial ).
Youth, Beautiful Movie Visually Captivating Paolo Sorrentino.
Maybe the biggest success of Flavors of Youth is the way the wistfulness of each short remains different. There are at least some romance and love in all three, and each provides its own unique memory-soaked longings.
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Feng Xiaogang's period drama charts the turbulent relationships among members of a Chinese military performance troupe from the 1970s to the 1990s.
