Youth

Name: Youth
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: December 15, 2017
Duration: 135 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Elane Zhong, Hai Tao, Keru Wang, Li Xiaofeng, Miao Miao

2017

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China Lion Film Distribution | Release Date: December 15, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Elane Zhong, Hai Tao, Keru Wang, Li Xiaofeng, Miao Miao, Pan Luo, TianChen Wang, Xiaofeng Li, Xuan Huang, Yan Su, Yang Caiyu, Yuan Sui

Summary: A look at the lives of members in a Military Cultural Troupe in the 1970s.

Director: Xiaogang Feng

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 135 min

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Clarence Tsui

Dec 14, 2017

Youth is a whirl of grand, dramatic gestures. Read full review

Christopher Machell

Youth is as sentimental as it is accomplished, but Xiaogang's mastery both of broad sweep and intimate detail proves an impressive feat. Read full review

Maggie Lee

Dec 14, 2017

Feng employs traditional craftsmanship to draw a sweeping historical canvas with profound human upheavals that mirror virtues and flaws of the Chinese people, without ever losing sight of the personal experiences that he dramatizes with such acute sensuality. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

As a straight, sentimental melodrama, Youth works well. While there are a lot of conventional tropes, the cast enacts them with such fresh, tenderhearted sincerity that they regain some power. Read full review

Justin Chang

Dec 14, 2017

If our understanding of the losses these characters have suffered feels incomplete, it’s hard to come away entirely unaffected as these men and women look back at their young adulthood and the whirlwind of historical change against which it played out. Read full review

Allan Hunter

Dec 14, 2017

Galloping across the decades, the film becomes increasingly sketchy and superficial. There is so much detail and substance in the 1970s stretch of this epic that the twists of fate and rueful reflections of later years inevitably feel less authentic and closer to soap opera. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Dec 15, 2017

The filmmakers over-extend themselves to solicit empathy for their doomed protagonists. Youth is so unbearably nice that I eventually wished it were remade by misanthropes. Read full review

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section20mi6

Feb 22, 2018

A surprisingly original story about the talented Chinese young soldiers of Arts department during the 70s and 80s. While depiction of communist propaganda seems at large because it's still a Chinese film, the main story is about those people who are shaped by their surroundings andA surprisingly original story about the talented Chinese young soldiers of Arts department during the 70s and 80s. While depiction of communist propaganda seems at large because it's still a Chinese film, the main story is about those people who are shaped by their surroundings and environments. Rarely does a Chinese film do such an astounding job at character development.… Expand

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bataguila

Nov 15, 2019

Es entretenida, como es otra cultura es otra forma de ver el amor, y las relaciones intrapersonales. Aprendes de esa cultura y su diciplina militar, sus danzas. La escena de guerra esta muy bien hecha.

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