Finds the filmmaker admirably working without a safety net
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Youth Without Youth (2007)
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Reviews Counted:99
Fresh:30
Rotten:69
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Although visually appealing, Coppola's latest film mixes too many genres with a very confusing plot.
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... [More]
Starring: Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Andre Hennicke
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Reviews for Youth Without Youth
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.
01/19/09
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.
12/27/08
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?
11/21/08
For all its flaws and there aren't very many, with Youth Without Youth you know you’re in the hands of a master.
11/19/08
Coppola may be back, but he's a long way from being back on form.
11/14/08
A stilted and inelegant work, well below par for Francis Ford Coppola
11/14/08
I'm here for the picture show.
05/12/08
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.
05/09/08
Though not an easy film to grasp or possibly enjoy, it's nevertheless a mindblowing acid-like excursion into the secret world of Orientalism.
04/13/08
This pretentious, impenetrable and deadly dull film never resonates as anything more than an aging filmmaker's feeble grasp at his own lost youth.
03/26/08
Coppola was more efficiently mystical when he wasn't trying so hard.
03/14/08
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.
03/04/08
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.
02/29/08
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.
02/29/08
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.
02/21/08
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.
02/08/08
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.
02/07/08
Top CriticThe 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.
01/29/08
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.
01/26/08
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