Review: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Jane Fonda, Rachel Weisz, And Paul Dano In Paolo Sorrentino's 'Youth'
This is a reprint of our review from the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
An infinity pool of beautiful hogwash, Paolo Sorrentino's follow-up to Best Foreign Film Oscar-winner, "The Great Beauty," attracted jeers and cheers from the audience following its Cannes debut today. And also from me, internally, as a kind of running commentary throughout the experience of watching it. When everything operates at such a high pitch, when each successive scene feels like it's a climax or a conclusion (seriously, any filmmaker who can't find an ending to their film should root around inside "Youth" — it's probably knocking about in there somewhere), early on you simply abandon the attempt to discern any sort of rhythm or flow or overarching meaning. But still, those vignettes and images and hallucinations parade past your eyes like models preening on a catwalk, so it's all you can do to sit in hasty judgement on each successive wannabe — Bravo! Boo! Boo! and so on.
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