Epic...

Rating: 10/10 (13 July 2016)

Cannot cease weeping...
"La Grande Bellezza", floored me, and now "Youth", has brought me to my knees. No filmmaker has reached into my soul with quite such an understanding of the human condition, or at the very least, my own perception of the subtle nuances of life, it's pursuits, it's failures, and successes.
In this most recent of Mr. Sorrentino's visions of the beauty of existence, he, in the most profound measures, extends his cinematic brilliance to the theme of youth, and it's antithesis age, with such creative license, and poetic collaboration of visuals, sound, and emotional context, I became paralyzingly captivated in the confines of it's world within worlds.
This film is the film equivalent of the " Musica Universalis", of the immensity of life. Absolutely damn brilliant***