The Best of Youth(Italian-2003)

I watched The Best of Youth(2003), directed by Marco Tullio Giordana a while ago but just now got around to writing about it. This is wonderful, a 6 hour saga of two brothers and their families from 1966-2003. Originally an Italian miniseries, apparently it was shown in the US in 2 3-hour parts, as it is on DVD. There's not that much lull for 6 hours ; there are enough stories and plot twists to move it along, including the brothers' relationship with an abused girl in a sanitarium. Very moving ending, if a little too optimistic to be believed, but this is a time to let that go. Surprisingly a lot of American 60's music in the beginning. Well worth the investment of your time, though you don't have to watch all 6 hours at once as I did!