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Youth Without Youth, 2007

Starring: Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz

Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola

Written by: Francis Ford Coppola

Language: English, Sanskrit, German, French, Italian, Romanian, Russian

Country: USA, Germany, Italy, France, Romania

Runtime: 124 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:6.3

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The mood of Youth Without Youth is contemplative, gloomy, and atmospheric. The plot centers around a miraculous event, supernatural abilities, and imaginary themes. It is a drama, period, and fantasy movie. In approach, Youth Without Youth is serious. The setting is Romania and India. It happens in the 1930s, during World War 2, and in the 1950s. Youth Without Youth is based on a book. Note that it includes mild violent content, nudity, and sexual content.

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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.

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Language:	English, Sanskrit, German, French, Italian, Romanian, Russian
Country:	USA, Germany, Italy, France, Romania
Release date:	2 November 2007
Runtime:	124 min

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Tim Roth

as Dominic

Alexandra Maria Lara

as Veronica / Laura

Bruno Ganz

as Professor Stanciulescu

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The New York Times

In this film Mr. Coppola blurs dreams and everyday life and suggests that through visual and narrative experimentation he has begun the search for new ways of making meaning, new holy places for him and for us. He may not have found them yet, but,... Full Review

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by: Manohla Dargis

Chicago Tribune

Too much of the film is a muddle, and it feels like work, not play. Full Review

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by: Michael Phillips

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29.March.2010
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by: Democritus
Democritus rated this movie10/10Must See

First and foremost this is an unforgettable excursion through image and atmosphere. Coppolla is a painter here, creating some of the most stunning images imaginable, one casually linked to the next. The photography recalls the hues that gained him fame in "The Godfather." Reading about that movie I may've learned the term "chiaroscuro" (that or undergrad art history). There is a bit of a gothic element here, grounded in a vague intellectual basis concerning the universal source of western language in a Sanskrit-related Indo-European root. But that's a sketchy frame which this discursive movie slides through as elusive narrative about time/eternal love. And a notion about the concept of "Orientalism" not only in the cinematic appeal of exotica to western eyes, but the mystery that is the Other, here popularized in twins or mirror images that appear through some aging & youthful cycles. Not for everyone, this lush, impeccably made vision offers a lost horizon of what may in fact be be nothing more than a fateful romance, but what a beautiful, intricate, intelligent ride. A great moody invocation of the early 20th c. I would have liked it anyway, but at the end I discovered the source was the important but relatively obscure writer Mircea Eliade, an expert on myth & symbol as well as much less-known as a rather dark novelist of Slavic subreality, such as settings placed during W W II. Just ignore all that if it means nothing to you, and don't let it scare you away from this movie, where all that is not directly bogged down. (I think Susan Sontag may have liked his fiction; I don't especially, although he is a great scholar of myth.) I bet I will re-visit this remarkable movie every 2 or 3 years, not only for the painterly skill of its consummate artistry (which suggests so much more than surface), but to see if, just by chance, there are other levels of meaning to be gleaned beyond its air of sweeping, gleaming mystery---like "2001: A Space Odyssey." 1.09

29.March.2010
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by: Democritus

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Coppola's return to film-making is also his most ambitious film in years. Resurrection, consciousness, linguistics, and Nazis! All in the same plot!! May inspire conversations until 3 in the morning about the nature of self. This is the type of film... Read and rate it

10.October.2009
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by: Chucky
Chucky rated this movie0/10

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