The Best of Youth vs The Cool Lakes of Death

The Best of Youth has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 5.9/10 for The Cool Lakes of Death). The Cool Lakes of Death is the shorter watch at 2h 4m compared with 6h 7m. The Cool Lakes of Death is the older of the two (1982 against 2003). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

The Best of Youth posterThe Best of Youth2003 VS The Cool Lakes of Death posterThe Cool Lakes of Death1982
The Best of YouthThe Cool Lakes of Death
Audience score★ 8.1/10★ 5.9/10
Year20031982
Length6h 7m2h 4m
GenresDrama, History, RomanceDrama, History
Country–Netherlands
DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaNouchka van Brakel
Main castLuigi Lo Cascio, Jasmine Trinca, Andrea Tidona, Claudio Gioè, Riccardo ScamarcioDerek de Lint, Renée Soutendijk, Huub Stapel, Peter Faber, Erik van 't Wout

Synopsis

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.

The Cool Lakes of Death

Hedwig, a young wealthy woman growing up in the straight-jacket of bourgeois morality in the Victorian era, descends into madness after years of sexual repression and tragedy.

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