The Coppola who was master of the 1970s ... is back, and that should make every cinephile weep with joy
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07/11/09
Tetro (2009)
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Reviews Counted:71
Fresh:48
Rotten:23
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
Visually inventive, narratively edgy, and unlike anything else.
07/10/09
Top CriticThere's still much to admire in the visual craft and offbeat cultural sampling Coppola heroically brings to a homogenized cinema, but Tetro rides off the rails.
07/03/09
Maddening and fascinating in a way that only a true artist could possibly manage, and piddling questions like whether or not the film "works" are completely beside the point.
06/27/09
Coppola 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 is alive from beginning to end, and it's a pleasure to see at least one big-name director get out of the prison of his own reputation.
06/19/09
Top CriticFor beauty, vision and the palpable sense of a veteran filmmaker still reveling in possibility, it's something to see.
06/19/09
Even the most deftly executed scenes are smothered in the Oedipal weight of past betrayals while they struggle to support the operatic melodrama that unfolds.
06/18/09
Coppola is still very much alive.
06/18/09
Top CriticTetro has no internal tension and should have been a comedy.
06/18/09
Top CriticEqually engrossing and moving, depicting that people can't run from memories or argue with their heart.
06/18/09
Here is a film that, for all of its plot, depends on characters in service of their emotional turmoil. It feels good to see Coppola back in form.
06/18/09
Top CriticTetro fuses the awkward and the ripely operatic.
06/17/09
Top CriticFrancis 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
For viewers who are willing to accept the sheer adolescence of Coppola's thematic obsessions and stylistic approach, Tetro shows plenty of questionably placed inspiration.
06/14/09
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 CriticThe movie plays not like an old man's film but like a promising, frustrating student effort.
06/12/09
Top CriticCoppola extends a timeless magic to the film, which is perfectly set in the cobblestone metropolis of Buenos Aires.
06/12/09
[An] extravagant, and eventually lurid, tale of a tortured family.
06/12/09
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