Youth: Sharon Horgan has no age (critic)

The British actress and designer writes a delicate chronicle of middle age, tender and melancholy, about desire, loneliness and this strange feeling of having to learn to live again.

Youth is a bit for fifty-year-olds what Fleabag was for thirty-somethings: a funny, raw and melancholic generational chronicle, which puts words to things that we rarely see told on screen.

A coming of age story of rebirth. Almost of reexistence. Alex looks straight into the eyes of the old age that awaits him inexorably, in a decade. What does she have left to live for, as a 50-year-old divorced mother, while her son prepares to leave for college? Looking for sex? Love? Happiness? Is this still an option…