1938, Romania: at 70, a professor of language and philosophy, Dominic Matei, contemplates suicide: the love of his life is dead, and he remains unable to complete his life's work on the origins of language. Then, he's struck by lightning. After a slow recovery, he grows younger. He must now avoid Nazis, who want to study and experiment on him. Some years later, he meets a young woman who has her own passage through a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research. Is the sweetness of life finally at hand?
Not just fans of Francis Ford Coppola will be disappointed by the mishmash plotting and stilted script of Youth Without Youth, the master???s first helming effort in 10 years. Overly talky tale spans the mid-20th century, following an elderly professor whose miraculous return to youth offers the chance to complete his magnum opus and rediscover lost love. Attempting to harness multiple genres, pic is brought down by ponderous dialogue (much of it dubbed) and an inability to connect with its characters. Limited bicoastal opening is set for Dec. 14, though Youth Without Youth will translate to cinemas without audiences.
Long stuck on completing his unrea...
Better than you might think
Ignore some of the bad reviews here, this is actually a very beautiful film. If you're looking for something along the lines of the Godfather or Apocalypse Now or some other bit of action, then of course, this ain't the film you want to see with a couple of beers. However, it's not confusing or messy in the slightest - it just messes around with ideas of dreams and hopes and possibilities and what-could-have-beens and what-might-be. It feels like a familiar and well-loved discourse into the meanings of death after unfulfilled lives, of knowledge versus love and hope - Faust for lovers! And without giving too much away, it's a very hopeful film. It surprised me actually - I w...
Youth Without Youth, Francis Ford Coppola's first film in 10 years, is based on a novella by Romanian comparative religion scholar Mircea Eliade. Ambitious in scope and byzantine in logic, the movie tackles time, consciousness, reality, the mystery of human potential, the origins of language, the likelihood of lightning striking twice within one couple, even if one of them is the reincarnation of her lover's former lover -- all the big enigmas.
The movie begins in 1938, in Romania, where Dominic Mattei (Tim Roth), an 80-year-old scholar and a linguist, struggles to complete his book on the origin of human language and consciousness, for which he ga...
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This movie was so deep that I would have to watch it a few more times to fully understand the reasoning behind the events in the film. I enjoyed it and when I get time I will watch it again.
Mircea Eliade’s novella "Youth Without Youth". In
