LOST YOUTH
(Lux Film) A Cert. PARTLY a thriller, partly a study (or so its title suggests) of the generation that grew up in the war years, Lost Youth doesn’t completely succeed as either. This is a pity, because I suspect Pietro Germi, whose In the Name of the Law I reviewed a few months ago, might do something pretty good in a neo-realist style if he didn’t let his stories run away with him. Perhaps he has succeeded in films we haven't yet seen here. As in some recent American movies, the lost youth of this film are relatively privileged-they can go to university, anyway. Their delinquency is not seen in such depth as in, say, Rebel Without a Cause, though the
Italian dialogue might) say more than one sus-| pects; and while the best of the film’s thriller ele-ments-the night club hold-up towards the end, for example-are well handled, it hasn’t sustained tension of the. out-and-out thriller, It: will probably be remembered longest for very good playing by Jacques Serras (Paris of Helen of Troy, no less) as a particularly cold-bloode? youth‘ul criminal. It’s a comment on the film as a social document that we feel no pity for him Massimo’ Girotti and Carla del Poggio are others in the cast whose names will be known te New Zealand filmgoers.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 924, 26 April 1957, Page 15
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222LOST YOUTH New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 924, 26 April 1957, Page 15
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