Duse vs The Best of Youth
The Best of Youth has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 6.8/10 for Duse). Duse is the shorter watch at 2h 2m compared with 6h 7m. The Best of Youth is the older of the two (2003 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Duse
The Best of Youth| Duse | The Best of Youth | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.8/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2003 |
| Length | 2h 2m | 6h 7m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History, Romance |
| Country | Italy | – |
| Director | Pietro Marcello | Marco Tullio Giordana |
| Main cast | Mimmo Borrelli, Noémie Merlant, Marcello Mazzarella, Federico Pacifici, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Luigi Lo Cascio, Jasmine Trinca, Andrea Tidona, Claudio Gioè, Riccardo Scamarcio |
Synopsis
Duse
In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. Struggling with the brutality of historical events unfolding and clinging to the possibility of utopia, she makes her art a revolutionary act, even at the cost of sacrificing health and affection—facing her final journey aware she could give up life itself, but not her own true nature.
The Best of Youth
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
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