2020 · romance · drama · comedy
The Best Years
Directed by Gabriele Muccino2h 9m2020
Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.
Our read: The Best Years (2020) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded romance · drama · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured romance / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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