Youth is Sorrentino's second English-language film and the follow-up to his Academy Award-winning film The Great Beauty (2013). Principal photography began in Flims, Switzerland, in May 2014. The primary location was the Waldhaus Flims, a five-star hotel built in the 19th century, where the cast and crew all stayed while filming. Other scenes were filmed in Davos, Switzerland, particularly in the Hotel Schatzalp (the location of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain). Some filming was also done in Rome and Venice.
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- 1 The Retrosettes Sister BandYou Got the Love 3:20
- 2 Mark KozelekOnward 2:49
- 3 Sun Kil MoonThird and Seneca 7:14
- 4 Gianluca CascioliDes Pas sur la Neige - Préludes (Book 1) 3:30
- 5 Susan PattersonCavatina "Figlia, ti scuoti" from Virginia (Act I) 5:26
- 6 Maria Letizia GorgaÀ Ma Manière 3:14
- 7 The Retrosettes Sister BandReality 4:03
- 8 Paloma FaithCan't Rely on You 3:15
- 9 Mark KozelekCeiling Gazing 8:09
- 10 David ByrneDirty Hair 4:49
- 11 BBC Concert OrchestraBerceuse from L'oiseau de feu - The Firebird 4:04
- 12 Trio MedievalJust (After Song of Songs) 12:46
- 13 BBC Concert OrchestraSimple Song #3 6:03
- 14 Simon HalseyMick's Dream (Bonus track) 2:04
- 15 David LangWood Symphony (Bonus track) 1:24
Youth
(2015)5
| Country | |
| Spoken Language | deutsch, english, spanish |
| Runtime | 2 hr 4 min |
| Budget | €12 300 000 |
| Premiere: World | $23 451 796 May 21, 2015 |
| USA | $2 703 296 |
| Other countries | $20 748 500 |
| Premiere: USA | $2 703 296 November 17, 2015 |
| first day | $23 900 |
| first weekend | $78 085 |
| theaters | 149 |
| rollout | 394 days |
| Digital: World | February 16, 2016 |
| Parental Advisory | Sex & Nudity, ... |
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| Also Known As | Youth - La giovinezza Italy |
About the film Youth
Retired orchestra conductor Fred Ballinger is on vacation with his daughter Lena and his film director best friend Mick Boyle in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip’s birthday.Смотреть онлайн
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What is the film “Youth” (2015) about?
It’s a story about aging, creativity, and friendship. Two elderly friends—a composer and a film director—spend time at an upscale Alpine resort, watching the other guests and rethinking their past, family, and life choices.
Why is the film called “Youth” if the main characters are old?
The title is both a contrast and a concept: “youth” here is not about age but a state of being—still able to feel, change, and experience inspiration and pain. The film suggests that the pursuit of “youth” persists even late in life.
Where does it take place, and why a resort setting?
Most of the story unfolds at a luxurious Alpine hotel-resort. It’s a “time-out-of-time” space: removed from everyday routines, the characters’ thoughts, fears, and memories come forward, while other guests mirror different versions of success, crisis, and loneliness.
What are the central themes and motifs?
Core themes include aging and the body, regret and reconciliation, the cost of success, creative crisis, friendship, parent–child relationships, and time as a kind of main “character.” Visual motifs feature the resort’s rituals, observing bodies and habits, and music as memory.
Is it more of a comedy or a drama?
It’s a tragicomedy: irony and absurdity sit alongside melancholy. Much of the humor comes from observing people and their vanity, but the emotional core is dramatic—fear of losing meaning, closeness, and one’s creative voice.
What role does music play in the story?
Music functions as a language of memory and emotion. It links the characters’ private histories to questions of recognition and legacy—what remains after you: a work, a gesture, relationships, or silence. The idea of a “final performance” becomes a decisive moment.
Why does the film focus so much on bodies, age, and appearance?
It’s part of the film’s perspective: the body is time made visible. By deliberately contrasting youth and age, beauty and fatigue, the film explores how self-perception shifts and how society judges people through appearance.
How should we read the ending—more hopeful or tragic?
The ending is ambiguous but more conciliatory than bleak: it doesn’t promise “eternal youth,” yet it affirms the possibility of choice and returning to one’s own voice. It doesn’t erase loss; it suggests courage can exist alongside inevitability.
Who made the film, and what’s distinctive about the style here?
The director is Paolo Sorrentino. His signature here blends sumptuous visuals, touches of grotesque humor, and philosophical melancholy—characters “speak” as much through pauses, music, and spatial rituals as through dialogue.
What purpose do the hotel’s other guests serve?
They form a “gallery of conditions”: different versions of fame, youth, burnout, and self-deception. Through them, the protagonists glimpse alternate life paths and better understand what they fear—and what they still want.
What does the film say about creative crisis and late works?
The film suggests a crisis isn’t just running out of ideas—it’s fear of being heard “the wrong way” and fear of not matching past achievements. Late-life creativity is framed as honesty: sometimes it matters less to “outdo yourself” and more to finally say what’s most personal.
What role do the female characters play in “Youth”?
The female characters trigger key emotional turns and challenge the men’s self-justifications—through conversations about family, fidelity, responsibility, and the cost of talent. In particular, the strand involving Rachel Weisz highlights parental debts and painful honesty between loved ones.
Is there satire of the entertainment industry and fame?
Yes. The film pokes at publicity, personal branding, and how success turns a person into a bundle of roles and expectations. The satire is gentle but sharp: luxury is constantly accompanied by emptiness and fatigue.
Why can the film feel “slow,” and what’s the best way to watch it?
Because it’s designed as contemplation: pauses, details, and mood shifts matter more than plot density. It works best as an album of scenes and reflections, where meaning emerges through repetition, imagery, and musical themes.
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Youth (Original Soundtrack Album)
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An excellent example of an absolutely formalist film, in which one can completely ignore the meaning of long, lengthy dialogues, which in other films would be the most important component. The visual and audio content will tell you everything that’s important.
About complex life things – simply, beautifully, delicately, witty. The film is very immersive, with participation: I completely felt like both Fred and Mick). Capacious second-tier characters. The author wanted to please the viewer with this story – he succeeded.
A peculiar film, not to everyone’s taste. Arthouse, no matter how you look at it. But for those who are fed up with banal plots, the film is very good and does not cause irritation when watching.
Two talented pensioners are relaxing in a sanatorium near Kislovodsk, discussing art, feelings and youth in between treatments. All this is seasoned with mesmerizing camera work, hypnotically capturing attention to the conversations.
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