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Youth Without Youth (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 98

Fresh: 29

Rotten:69

Average Rating: 4.7/10

Consensus: Although visually appealing, Coppola's latest film mixes too many genres with a very confusing plot.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for some sexuality, nudity and a brief disturbing image.

Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Dec 14, 2007 Limited

Box Office: $146,307

Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola returns to the director's chair for the first time in nearly a decade with his ambitious parable YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH. Set in Romania on the eve of World War II, the tale begins... Francis Ford Coppola returns to the director's chair for the first time in nearly a decade with his ambitious parable YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH. Set in Romania on the eve of World War II, the tale begins when 70-year-old linguistics professor Dominic Matei (Tim Roth) is struck by lightning, miraculously restoring him to the flower of youth. Swaddled in bandages, blind, and mute, Dominic astounds his doctor (Bruno Ganz) with his swift recovery--new teeth, smooth skin, and a shining mane of hair--and even the young nurses start to take an interest in the dashing, vigorous septuagenarian. But things turn perilous when the Third Reich learns of Dominic's rejuvenation and wants to harness his new, superhuman abilities. On the run in wartorn Europe, Dominic uses his powers to keep one step ahead of the Nazis and finish his life's work, an expansive study on language and human consciousness. The unpredictable plot thickens when Dominic falls for Veronica (Alexandra Maria Lara), a beautiful young woman who reminds him of a lost love and, what's more, has also had a fateful encounter with lightning--leaving her possessed by the spirits of her past lives! As she journeys from Switzerland to Malta to India, Veronica's unusual predicament may hold the key to completing Dominic's encyclopedic masterwork, but perhaps at the cost of their new life together. Closer to baroque and risk-taking pictures like ONE FROM THE HEART than THE GODFATHER, Coppola's sprawling exploration of love, memory, and lost time brims with rich symbolism and inventive visuals. Based on the novella by Mircea Eliade, the philosophic film evokes the poetic enigmas and freewheeling narrative of a literary novel. As audacious as it is thought-provoking, YOUNG WITHOUT YOUTH is a compelling return from a cinematic master. [More]

Starring: Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Andre Hennicke

Starring: Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Andre Hennicke, Marcel Iures

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Screenwriter: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
Composer: Osvaldo Golijov
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

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  • Francis Ford Coppola returns to the realm of his mastery with a film about growing young. Lightning strikes Dominic Matei (Tim Roth) so close to death that he ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. Now he's on the run with a new love for life, but with no hope of knowing his phenomenal fate.
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    Nem mesmo a bela fotografia e a impecável direção de arte conseguem salvar esta bagunça narrativa que, sob a desculpa de promover uma discussão metafísica, faz Coppola parecer um cineasta em início de carreira.

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    01/19/09
    Pablo Villaca
    Cinema em Cena

    Very much a film of this era, its director returning after a ten-year absence from the cinema with a peculiar little masterpiece about things unrecoverable in time.

    Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
    12/27/08
    Walter Chaw
    Film Freak Central

    Youth Without Youth smacks of vanity project from the first poetic moments to the last, and whose vanity lays a stronger claim to the big screen than Francis Ford Coppola's?

    Full Review Source: MovieTime, ABC Radio National | comment Comment
    11/21/08
    Ruth Hessey
    MovieTime, ABC Radio National

    For all its flaws and there aren't very many, with Youth Without Youth you know you’re in the hands of a master.

    Full Review Source: At the Movies (Australia) | comment Comment
    11/19/08
    Margaret Pomeranz
    At the Movies (Australia)

    Coppola may be back, but he's a long way from being back on form.

    Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
    11/14/08
    Sandra Hall
    Sydney Morning Herald

    A stilted and inelegant work, well below par for Francis Ford Coppola

    Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
    11/14/08
    Andrew L. Urban
    Urban Cinefile

    I'm here for the picture show.

    Full Review Source: Projection Booth | comment Comment
    05/12/08
    Rob Humanick
    Projection Booth

    With all the nurses making moves on the suicidal old codger's renovated physique, Coppola's Youth Without Youth comes across as somewhere between The Godfather On Viagra and Apocalypse Then, Redux.

    Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
    05/09/08
    Prairie Miller
    NewsBlaze

    Though not an easy film to grasp or possibly enjoy, it's nevertheless a mindblowing acid-like excursion into the secret world of Orientalism.

    Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
    04/13/08
    Dennis Schwartz
    Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    This pretentious, impenetrable and deadly dull film never resonates as anything more than an aging filmmaker's feeble grasp at his own lost youth.

    Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | comment Comment
    03/26/08
    Matt Brunson
    Creative Loafing

    Coppola was more efficiently mystical when he wasn't trying so hard.

    Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
    03/14/08
    John Beifuss
    Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

    This is the perfect example of what can happen when a producer/director/writer doesn't have to answer to anyone. Coppola makes an artistic mess.

    Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review | comment Comment
    03/04/08
    Jeff Bayer
    The Scorecard Review

    It often feels like a dream -- specifically, someone else's, a nonlinear, illogical synapse explosion that's always fascinating to the person in whose head it detonated but not so much to those experiencing it secondhand.

    Full Review Source: Washington City Paper | comment Comment
    02/29/08
    Tricia Olszewski
    Washington City Paper

    So much of Youth Without Youth is impenetrable, and not in a way that makes you want to solve the puzzle, but in a way that makes you want to knock the puzzle pieces off the table and flee the room.

    Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
    02/29/08
    Carla Meyer
    Sacramento Bee

    It would be easier to sit back and rest on his legend rather than press on as an average filmmaker, which is what Coppola has become.

    Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
    02/21/08
    Phil Villarreal
    Arizona Daily Star
    N/R

    A classic example of the “what-was-he-thinking?” movie, Youth Without Youth unfolds in a sort of formal dream state devoid of day-to-day normalcy.

    Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
    02/08/08
    Robert W. Butler
    Kansas City Star

    Youth Without Youth is so beautiful, in fact, that it almost transcends the epic bunkum of Coppola's script. But almost doesn't count, even when it is uttered in ancient tongues.

    Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
    02/07/08
    Steven Rea
    Philadelphia Inquirer
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    The suspicion that all this froth builds up towards nothing but some poetic imagery is inexorably realized and sours the magic of the second half of the film.

    Full Review Source: I.E. Weekly | comment Comment
    01/29/08
    Amy Nicholson
    I.E. Weekly

    It's a clear case of an artist indulging his personal vision and getting so carried away by his muse, he's forgotten the most important rule of filmmaking: Other people have to sit through this s**t too.

    Full Review Source: Philadelphia Weekly | comment Comment
    01/26/08
    Sean Burns
    Philadelphia Weekly

    This film's playful visual language pulls you in rather than shuts you out; it isn't difficult to decipher, and it enables Coppola and his editor, Walter Murch, to navigate the story's many realms with a directness and dexterity that are refreshing.

    Full Review Source: Baltimore Sun | comment Comment
    01/25/08
    Michael Sragow
    Baltimore Sun
     
     
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