If you are going to ruminate on the melancholy nature of mortality, you might as well go do it in style.
Youth, Paolo Sorrentino's follow-up to his Best Foreign Language Oscar-winner The Great Beauty, is one of the more gorgeous films you are likely to see this year, and it looked particularly fabulous projected in the Cannes Film Festival's Grand Théâtre Lumière. Michael Caine's Fred Ballinger is a world renown conductor and composer, taking an annual retreat in a Swiss spa. The main building is in a grand 19th century style, and next to it are modern facilities ripped from the pages of Architectural Digest. The grounds are simply stunning, and in the evenings everyone gathers in exquisite clothing to watch performers on a fantastically lit spinning outdoor stage. Design majors may need smelling salts.??