best of youth
Feb. 20th, 2006 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaideni watched Best of Youth this weekend. (C secretly watched most of it from behind the laptop and through doorways.) i had it on my netflix queue over a year ago and had nearly forgotten about it. it was nice. i'm glad i watched it. it has restored my faith in the people of Italy.
it's also a resounding disappointment. a friend saw it at SIFF 2004 and raved about it from the moment he walked out of the theater and never stopped pushing it. time has passed; we liked to see films together and i found his taste to be quite reliable, but we don't get along anymore and the evil part of me wanted this beloved piece to be one of the rare extreme misses (see my response to Madeline is Sleeping). instead of getting reinforcement for happy fuzzy memories or a dollop of extra tasty spite, i got what is best described by the review at three imaginary girls..."An enormous achievement that's good, but not life-altering: like watching an entire season's worth of entertaining TV episodes in one butt-numbing sitting. Oh wait, that's pretty much what it is."
it's also a resounding disappointment. a friend saw it at SIFF 2004 and raved about it from the moment he walked out of the theater and never stopped pushing it. time has passed; we liked to see films together and i found his taste to be quite reliable, but we don't get along anymore and the evil part of me wanted this beloved piece to be one of the rare extreme misses (see my response to Madeline is Sleeping). instead of getting reinforcement for happy fuzzy memories or a dollop of extra tasty spite, i got what is best described by the review at three imaginary girls..."An enormous achievement that's good, but not life-altering: like watching an entire season's worth of entertaining TV episodes in one butt-numbing sitting. Oh wait, that's pretty much what it is."
