There is always plenty of "first time", and the director Pupi Avati Bologna, so the above, with "A boundless youth," his first love story to the big screen, film that moved even if not convincing.
Lillo and Chicca are the protagonists, tested couple getting on in years: he sports journalist of great fame, she teaches medieval philology at La Sapienza. The first frames portray them as if they were still teenagers in love, happy, busy with a wonderful love story. Just a pain in their house too big: no offspring, no grandchildren, but in spite of this serious shortcoming, the two manage to overcome the lack of a child due to strong feeling.
And when memory begins to falter, and another between a teasing, "advanced age" who would never think of serious disease such as Alzheimer's Alzahimer regressive? And throughout the film flow on two narrative lines: the difficult present and the past of the disease Lino telling, with flashbacks, her regression to childhood.
Chicca with his intelligence and foresight, began to observe Lillo, he realizes that something is wrong, do not surrender, he studied a way to communicate with him while his mind slowly becomes childish, backwards through the maze of "a endless youth. "
anthem of a love that knows no age, weather, illness, ready to fight against nature, against fate, against the evil advances. Too much rhetoric? Yes, the message the film conveys, as well as the entire film will abound, you always know where the author wants going with this, any plot twist, again all too obvious ... but is it not the imitation of a mature love all this obvious? In many places the call to Benjamin Button is very strong, the disease is here to revert Lillo, Benjamin regress instead for "a strange case." After all, memories are everything except the "original", belong to us, are ours, we know them, our mind has forfeited them as a snapshot camera, but who could ever say that a thing did not kidnap and emotions each time? And here are their own, the memories of Lillian to speak his mind digging, he leaps in time, the images are revealed in schizophrenia of his sick mind. Chicca will the baby in her arms as desired and never arrived, Lilly will be lost within the confines of his adolescence, (but to finish where? Too mysterious end of the film) Lino, in fact, completely lost his perception of himself as a man returns a frightened child, refuge in the countryside near Bologna, where he was the teenager.
This story quest'atroce disease that, like all diseases, not a reason, emblematic of the dog Lillo child is called its "Why . Worth a test signal Vincenzo Crocitti , the family priest, here in his last appearance before his death.
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