It's hard to put into words how much I like the film.

Rating: 7/10 (14 December 2015)

Youth was a film done with total artistic expression. Not since I saw The Great Beauty have I seen a movie that was so much like a moving painting, you watch it and you let it move you.
Fitting that the movie is about an artist. A orchestra conductor long retired spends time vacationing in a long in the Swiss alps accompanied by his oldest friend, a filmmaker working on a new picture.
Michael Caine was magnificent in this picture, but I must admit, I was drawn more to Harvey Keitel's character, mostly because his story was easier to follow. It's more of a standard plot than can be followed. Either way Caine and Keitel were great on the screen together.
Also liked Paul Dano in the picture who sports a vastly different look then I seen him in any of his other pictures.
I must admit that I did not really get what was going on all the time, but I think that was what the filmmakers wanted to do. To create a film that did not fit, or rather he created something that acts as total emotion and is hard to describe why you like it or why you don't
With that said, I really did like the performances of all the actors I mention and the performance of Rachel Weisz who is also in the movie.
I found it a beautiful tale of someone who remembers who he was a lot differently than others do.