Youth Trailer: Michael Caine Tries to Take a Piss Tomorrow ~ Cinenus

Monday, 11 May 2015

Youth Trailer: Michael Caine Tries to Take a Piss Tomorrow

The trailer for Youth is here to give us all a taste of Cannes. In 2013, Paolo Sorrentino hit the festival with The Great Beauty, a movie that went on to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and push the Italian filmmaker to the next level of craft and notoriety.

With his follow-up, Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel play elderly best friends spending a vacation at a lavish hotel with Caine’s character’s daughter, played by Rachel Weisz. They talk about the closeness of the future, the distance of the past, and the difficulty of getting more than four drops of urine out. One’s a beloved composer, the other’s a screenwriter.

They’re also bombarded by a gorgeous nude woman in the baths, creating imagery that would turn Woody Allen’s head fast enough to charge a battery.

Undoubtedly it’s a meditation on aging masculinity and companionship, which makes it a natural partner with The Great Beauty (their names even complement each other). That film featured a notable figure in the arts whose time had passed him by confronting the big life questions while facing down mortality. If anything, Youth sounds like a sequel.

The trailer is beautiful, and it evokes a sense of philosophy and grounded grief that comes with living. Granted it also features wealthy old men waxing poetic. Well-tended soil, but typically fertile ground nonetheless.

Youth will screen in competition at Cannes in a few days and should be in cinemas in the US soon after. Here’s the synopsis from the Cannes Film Festival website:

Fred and Mick, two old friends approaching their eighties, are enjoying a vacation in a lovely hotel in the foothills of the Alps. Fred, a retired composer and conductor, has no intention of returning to his music career which he dropped a long time ago, while Mick, a director, is still working, hurrying to finish the screenplay of his latest film. Both friends know that their days are numbered and decide to face their future together. But unlike them, no one else seems worried about the passing of time…

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