YOUTH

Paolo Sorrentino’s new film, Youth, begins with four clicks from a pair drumsticks counting off the opening song, “You’ve Got the Love.” The tune is performed by the Retrosettes Sister Band, an unknown local group from Manchester, England; it was originally performed by Candi Staton in the’80s, later covered by Florence and The Machine. The film’s singer is sweet, naïve; this is the kind of band that plays resorts the world over. It is a fitting opening for Youth‘s haphazard, rambling narrative, its flowing mediations on life and music, old age and adolescence.
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