Youth Without Youth
by Francis Ford Coppola
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Actor: Alexandra Maria Lara, Andr? Hennicke, Bruno Ganz, Marcel Iures, Tim RothDirector: Francis Ford Coppola
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Mihai Malaimare Jr.
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Anahid Nazarian
Producer: Fred Roos
Producer: Masa Tsuyuki
Writer: Mircea Eliade
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Romanian (Original Language); Russian (Original Language); Sanskrit (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Youth Without Youth
Movie Review: Philosophical meditation
Summary: 4 Stars
This film by Francis Ford Coppola is based on the short story by Romanian writer Mircea Eliade. Perhaps that is what is the trouble with the movie. Plot of the story is so multi-layered and complex that making a movie was no easy task.
Tim Roth plays an elderly linguistics professor who never managed to finish his one major work regarding the origins of the language. He is old and lonely, his life void of his one true love and his professional life work unfinished. One rainy day, he walks the streets of Bucharest and gets hit by the lightening. Before long, he makes remarkable recovery, starts looking 35 years younger and due to historical circumstances of the time (WWII) gets second chance in life. But even the second chances have their steep price. He must wrestle with his inner self that is trying to take sides between good and evil? Can he stay on the side of good and still acomplish his life's work?
Movie is visually very pleasing. I particlulary liked the part in Malta where now young professor finds his long lost love and wants to protect her at all costs. However, deep philosophical debates about consciousness and subconsciousness, soul reincarnation, power of words and language, legacy we as a human beings leave in the world is something tht really belongs to the written word rather than a film.
Wonderful cast is lead by Tim Roth, to include Bruno Gantz.
Summary of Youth Without Youth
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.Francis Ford Coppola returns to directing for the first time in a decade with the fascinating if perplexing Youth Without Youth, a kind of science-fiction tale of mythic proportions based on a novella by the late Romanian historian and religion scholar Mircea Eliade. Tim Roth stars as elderly linguist Dominic Matei, whose life work--uncovering the roots of human language--has been stymied throughout his long and undistinguished career. Struck by lightning while crossing a Bucharest street in 1938, Matei not only survives but goes through a physical transformation, reverting to the age of 35 and remaining ageless for decades to come. Trying to remain incognito, Matei is pursued in Europe by Nazi intelligence as well as journalists, acquiring strange powers and communicating with a sort of psychological double of himself. Throughout, Matei finds himself unable to escape a cyclical destiny, particularly when he falls for a woman (Alexandra Maria Lara)--physically! similar to a lost love in his pre-lightning life--whose apparent possession by ancient, Indian deities is useful to his work but dangerous to her. The episodic film lurches along with the logic of a dream siphoned into waking life, a constantly shifting consciousness that suggests Matei exists in several planes of experiential reality simultaneously. Coppola has been down this hallucinatory road before, perhaps most spectacularly in Apocalypse Now. But it is not hard to see how Youth Without Youth is a very personal film for him and somewhat of a parallel to his career, which seems rejuvenated with the release of this complex movie, so full of the kind of technical and stylistic flourishes that brought Coppola legions of admirers and detractors years ago. --Tom Keogh
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