Youth Without Youth

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Sam F @Sam_Fisher 04/24/2024 The only explanation I see for this horrific attempt to bring mysticism to the 21st century is that some people don't get wiser, and instead get religion with age. Also, writing, financing and directing your own movie is a recipe for disaster if you have lost the discipline and force a dictatorship on the set, with no criticism around to prevent your excesses. Ganz acts with his usual grace and Lara makes the most of her international chance, but it's the very ideas behind the film that deserve to be buried in the millennial caves it comes from. See more helder f @uniquecliches 02/11/2024 Great (individual) scenes, photography, acting and dialogues that make any criticism feel almost like an offense. But, as a whole, it's a rather convoluted and tortuous storyline with frankly several unneeded parts. How many references to the war? How many different languages? How many different accents? How many different recordings? How many different locations? How many conflicts? Again each fragment is beautiful, but wow! A bit too much happening in this movie that doesn't blend very well. Maybe better editing would render this a more interesting movie See more Alec B @Alec97 01/05/2024 I'll concede that at times the narrative is frustrating, but that doesn't mean this movie deserved the excessively nasty criticism it received. Coppola is playing around with so many genres here that I found myself drawn into the dense plot, hell even the seemingly unconvincing romance pays off in unexpected ways. See more s r @ScottR 06/12/2022 Another lost rating. Ugh… Main points were that Coppola was very ambitious in making this and it was a very complicated film. I turned on his commentary part way through and that made a big difference to help me understand what he was going for, because it wasn't clear. It is a beautiful film and was well made. It was an STG DVD. See more 02/27/2021 Oh my god. Coppola tries to out Kubrick Kubrick: cinematography, lighting, shots, angles—except they were all pretentious cliches that had zero to do with the story. The dialogue is laughable, the situations are ridiculous, and the various time/location "plot" sections appear to be either Coppola wanting to use some Nazi costumes in threatening circumstances (that had nothing to do with the film)... or Francis wanting to hang out in some exotic locales that seemed chosen, not for the story line, but for their scenery and the quality of local hotels. Ugh. And the plot, omg, Coppola probably read some upanishads, listened to George Harrison songs, and got interested in the origins of language. And the "romance" was as emotionally appealing as watching two mannequins speaking in tongues. It was as if the two stars made love looking at cue cards. Mind you, I love difficult, intelligent art films, but this was one long jerk off on celluloid by a master who's lost his mojo. These egotistic auteurs need someone to say "really, dude, a swastika on a garter?"—"come on man, an upside down shot?!" —-Or better yet "No, that doesn't work!" I was actually saddened to watch this high budget student film from one of America's legends. It was pathetic and he should be embarrassed: it was that bad. See more Emilio T @MilloTPue 10/06/2019 You have the feeling it changes the "rabbit to chase" every half an hour but, at the end, you did not have a bad time but did not learn anything at all. See more Read all reviews

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