Clearly, Coppola needs to re-read O’Neill and stop trying to be Soderbergh.
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06/10/09
Tetro (2009)
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Reviews Counted:69
Fresh:47
Rotten:22
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: A complex meditation on family dynamics, Tetro's arresting visuals and emotional core compensate for its uneven narrative.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Jun 11, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $273,753
Synopsis: Almost four decades after he wrote THE CONVERSATION, Francis Ford Coppola returns to original screenwriting with this personal drama about an Argentine-Italian family. TETRO stars Vincent Gallo and... [More]
Starring: Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, Maribel Verdú, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Reviews for Tetro
What makes it eminently watchable is the craft. Cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. films in luscious widescreen monochrome that looks almost wet. Osvaldo Golijov's score is another pleasure.
08/14/09
Top CriticThe angst-ridden treatment of Oedipal issues makes the picture play out like a passably talented imitation of O'Neill, Williams, Miller and Inge, and thus it feels like the pale product of an over-tilled field.
05/14/09
Top CriticFrancis Ford Coppola returns to form with his richest, most enrapturing film since Apocalypse Now. The black-and-white cinematography alone is as intoxicating as a bottle of the director's finest red.
05/12/09
Tetro, the second in Coppola's new line of low-budget art films (following last year's headache factory Youth Without Youth), is hard to take seriously.
06/11/09
Top CriticCoppola has made some of the greatest films ever made in traditional narrative mode, but whenever he goes into his indie-outsider dance, he stumbles badly.
06/19/09
The movie plays not like an old man's film but like a promising, frustrating student effort.
06/12/09
Top CriticThe film's visual beauty is not enough to compensate for its somewhat static feel, though, or the unbelievability of several of the characters.
05/15/09
Coppola extends a timeless magic to the film, which is perfectly set in the cobblestone metropolis of Buenos Aires.
06/12/09
It has a verve and vitality that's been missing from [Coppola's] pictures for 25 years, and its various and visible flaws all result from too much of that verve rather than too little.
06/12/09
Top CriticDespite all its longueurs and extreme aggravations, Tetro deserves to be seen as the late work of one of the cinema’s most accomplished masters of mise-en-scène.
06/10/09
Top CriticVisually arresting and intelligently crafted for the most part, but its slightly uneven tone diminishes its overall power to captivate and engross you thoroughly.
06/11/09
Francis Ford Coppola gives you a lot to digest here and I appreciate that.
06/15/09
It is long and slow and, most importantly, lacking in dramatic tension.
06/15/09
With Tetro, it feels as if the director is regaining his footing, figuring out which parts of his past to hold on to and which to let go.
06/12/09
What threatens to be a mere exercise in style proves to be as involving as it is inventive.
09/17/09
Visually inventive, narratively edgy, and unlike anything else.
07/10/09
Top CriticIt would be a better coffee-table book than film.
07/17/09
The heavy symbolism of binding family ties becomes too much to bear.
06/10/09
Top CriticStylistically, "Tetro" has its strengths, but it fails to connect with an emotional core before its overwrought third act comes crashing down.
06/04/09
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