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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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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.
If making "Youth Without Youth" helped to clean out the pipes for Francis Ford Coppola and spurs him on to do better films, then that's great. The film has served a purpose.
With a made-up language, Dominic asserts, he can "describe paradoxical situations, impossible to express in any existing language." This might be one way to describe Youth Without Youth, a movie conceived as a kind of insular language%u2014convolut
...nothing less than a complete mess that often resembles an arty student film.
Coppola is still a master image maker, and there are moments of genuine beauty and cinematic power in Youth Without Youth that cannot be waved off with a shrug or a laugh.
Although it's easy to admire what [Coppola] was attempting to do with Youth Without Youth, the movie fails on such a thorough and complete level that to call it a noble attempt isn't really fair: It's really a colossal miscalculation.
A terrible mess of mystical mumbo jumbo, but you have to give Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth this: It is one magnificent and interesting failure of a film.
Unfortunately, Youth becomes so lost in its own conceptual, convoluted vortex, it becomes virtually incomprehensible.
Top CriticFrancis Ford Coppola’s first film in 10 years deserves serious attention, but this massive dose of Nembutal only manages to render you too comatose to think.
Top CriticHow's this for a ringing endorsement: Watching Youth Without Youth, Francis Ford Coppola's first film in nearly a decade, is like taking a philosophy exam.
You should know that the film's incomprehensible bits are complemented by much incomprehensible blather.
Not so much a bad movie as a dispiritingly unnecessary one (especially by a once-great director), Youth Without Youth ultimately boils down to a long, autumn stroll around the block to a place everyone winds up at some time or another.
Top CriticA boondoggle so obnoxious in concept and execution that it's hard to see why [Coppola] thought that it might be a good idea to try filming it in the first place.
Too much of the film is a muddle, and it feels like work, not play.
Top CriticI'm all for bold screwiness, but this provocation seems labored despite the striking images.
Top CriticFrancis Ford Coppola's first movie in 10 years is a technically dazzling work, but humanly a bewildering one.
Coppola has conviction even with the airiest elements. The churn and sweep of time, memory, karma, the whole enchilada of fate, give the story a weirdly compulsive charm.
Meandering and often incomprehensible.
Youth Without Youth proves that Francis Ford Coppola can still make a movie, but not that he still knows how to choose his projects.
Top CriticVirtually every scene is suitable for framing, if not necessarily for watching.
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December 12, 2007:
Walter Murch on Youth Without Youth: The RT Interview (With Exclusive Photos and Clips!)
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