La Meglio Gioventu (The Best of Youth)

Director- Marco Tullio Giordana
Year- 2003

I give it- 9/10

This is how films should be made, even if they must run almost 6 hours to be made this way, if you make it well people will sit through those six hours & watch it. It is a tale that spans 3 generations of the Carati family, mainly centering around the two brothers, Nicola & Matteo. Several characters are introduced in between & at the end all of them are built so well that you know them almost like you know the real people, you feel for them, you hope for them, you laugh & cry with them. I stayed up till past 2 am on two consecutive nights to finish watching this & it was totally worth it. Wonderful film, must watch for every cinema lover.