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Youth stars Michael Caine as retired composer and conductor Fred Ballinger, and Harvey Keitel as screenwriter Mick Boyle. They’re on vacation in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps, looking on with curiosity and tenderness upon their children’s confused lives, Mick’s enthusiastic young writers, and the other hotel guests.
While Mick is trying to complete the screenplay for what he believes will be his last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. But someone wants to hear him conduct again, at all costs.
Written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, and also starring Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Jane Fonda and Paloma Faith appearing as herself, I wasn’t wholly sold on this despite the gravitas of the two leads, but there’s a lot of mileage in the grey pound, as shown recently with films like The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its sequel.
Youth is released in the UK on January 15th 2016. January and February are usually the months when crap films are quietly shoved out of the way, unless they’re Oscar/BAFTA contenders. And this does not look like a contender, quite frankly.
Check out the trailer below and click on the poster for the full-size image:
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