Boring, protracted and lacking purpose are the movie's positives summed up in a mere handful of words. Characters are presented in casual vignettes, as if the movie's screenplay was a trite footnote to its casual direction & forgettable photography - all of which ultimately bores one senseless within its first twenty minutes. Even one of the doubtlessly "neutral" reviewers above who (quite incredulously) gave it an almost perfect nine out of ten marks, writes "the film can be more well-organized and focused." Well... let that be a warning to you: someone who thought this movie to be near perfect, still criticized its lack of focus!
Although the movie is allegedly set in a particular part of China, it could have just as well been set anywhere in Asia and still be just as banal. Within half an hour of watching it I wondered increasingly why they bothered making it all all? For little, if anything, was of interest. Admittedly the most interesting scene in the movie was the first supposed lovemaking scene, and solely because the Chinese girl in it was most attractive. It's a shame she was not cast as the lead in a better movie, is about the best I can say for "Glamorous Youth" (its misnomer of an English title): not worth the time spent watching it.
