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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?
Ruth Hessey, MovieTime, ABC Radio National
Youth Without Youth
2007 · 2h 4m · R
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Directed by
Francis Ford Coppola
Overview
Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
Director and cast
- Francis Ford Coppola Director
- Tim Roth as Dominic Matei
- Alexandra Maria Lara as Veronica / Laura
- Bruno Ganz as Professor Stanciulescu
- André Hennicke as Dr. Josef Rudolf
- Marcel Iureș as Professor Tucci
- Adrian Pintea as Pandit
- Florin Piersic Jr. as Dr. Gavrila
- Matt Damon as Life Magazine Reporter
- Roxana Guttman as Gertrude
- Anamaria Marinca as Hotel Receptionist
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
33%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Rotten
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.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Rotten
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.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Rotten
Unfortunately, Youth becomes so lost in its own conceptual, convoluted vortex, it becomes virtually incomprehensible.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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