It takes a long while to get going, but eventually I got sucked into the soap opera of The Best of Youth.
Shameless Italian pop, i.e. family arguments, tears, political conflict, tears, family arguments, emergency room crises, tears, family arguments, political-economic conflict, tears, family arguments, weddings, and tearful hugs of reconciliation. It doesn't even hesitate to have a pretty girl playing Mozart on a rescued piano as the flood waters batter Florence in 1966.
As an up-to-date epic, there's lots of heavily significant music, e.g.Fausto Leali's Who? haunting the soundtrack throughout. This video has bad sound, but the fashions are terrific, and the dancers show that RAI-Italia was not intimidated by Pan's People.
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