Youth ( 2015)

FILM4, 9.00PM

Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel escape the past in an alpine hotel in Paolo Sorrentino’s gorgeous but shallow follow-up to The Great Beauty. Caine, as a retired composer visiting a chic alpine spa, is on fine form, investing the role with a moving, sepia-tinted pathos that carries the film through its thinner moments. The shimmering surface of the movie is beguiling, but for depth and exercise, dip elsewhere.