17 Minutes of Applause for Paolo Sorrentino and ‘Youth’

But was anyone timing the boos? 

I don’t know if I have ever seen such wildly diverse reactions to a film; Paolo Sorrentino’s newest, in competition at the Cannes film festival, has left its mark, in any case.

Some are calling it “the best so far at the festival” and a “masterpiece”.

One journalist called it “the most conceited, inane, egocentric piece of… Cinema I have seen in years”.

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