Youth (2015)

A horrible movie with no story just some old wisdom nonsense the only thing good from it are gorges scene and luxury hotel location

I've seen a lot of movies in my life, but I can't recall a single one with so many good actors involved in such a great nonsense: a supposedly adult reflection on life and aging, filled with commonplace phrases and silly remarks of all sorts, with signs and hints leading nowhere and at the same time predictability in the most childish way (from the incomprehensible inclusion of senseless scenes with Diego Maradona, one of the most stupidest men on earth, to the moment Michael Caine tells the buddhist monk something like "You can't fool me, I know you can't levitate", after which you can bet your life you will get a scene with the monk's levitation...) I don't think this awful mess deserves any more words: it's the greatest and saddest waste of money and talented actors I've ever seen.

Like someone said before, or you love this movie or you won't think much of it. You can categorize me with the second option, I didn't think much of it and could not wait for this movie to be over. I've just been lured by the names of the cast. Harvey Keitel and Michael Caine are both actors I really like and even in this movie they do a good job with their acting performances. The filming techniques are also excellent, nothing bad to say about that. The nature scenery from Switzerland are also nice to look at. So why would I rate Youth below average? Because when I watch a movie I need to be entertained, the movie has to have an interesting story, a story well told. And even for drama's that are not necessary my thing the story has to be interesting, and sometimes it is. But with Youth I didn't get anything of that. It's a long boring story about basically nothing. Too bad because you had all the right ingredients to make it a good movie. But without a decent story you can't have a good movie.

The film "Youth" (La giovinezza) by the Italian director Paolo Sorrentino is a reflection of the deep crisis in Italian cinema. After the golden age of Italian cinema in the 1960s the crisis started and became inescapable.Director Sorrentino tells the story of two close friends vacationing in a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. One is a composer played by Michael Caine another is a filmmaker played by Harvey Keitel. Michael Caine plays his role well as usual and is the only reason why the film is remotely watchable.Otherwise the film is dull, pretentious and lacks any new or interesting ideas. The cinematography was bland and unoriginal. The music was surprisingly awful considering this is a film about a famous and beloved composer.The product placement for Microsoft Kinect was shameless, annoying and resembled a parody. The film had a positive critical response, however it is not a masterpiece, just utterly forgettable.The film is just another imitation of Fellini in the same way as "The Great Beauty" (La grande bellezza) but "The Great Beauty" at least was not so flat out boring and monotonous.It is time for the directors to stop stealing from the great masters and to their find own unique style and to produce new ideas and the film jurors should not encourage plagiarism either."Youth" can only be recommended as a sleeping aid.See more reviews at: http://indie-cinema.com/