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A professor's life changes after a cataclysmic incident during the dark years before WWII. Becoming a fugitive, he is pursued through far-flung locations including Romania, Switzerland, Malta and Indi...( read more 
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MCT:August 18, 2008How did this guy make Dracula? Here's another movie where the director tried to be too cryptic, symbolic and other such words and ended up with an incoherrent piece of crap.
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MCT:August 4, 2008I have a really hard time with this film. I love where they were going with it though. The search for knowledge, the Nazis, the strange powers, all of that is great. So is Tim Roth. However there is no way to really wrap your head around this film. I don't know if its because of a pompous director or because of my slight ADD but man I'm not digging this ending. I just hate it when I have to go to Wikipedia in order to understand what I just watched. Not cool.
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MCT:August 3, 2008
not an easy film to watch, but very rewarding if you give it the attention it deserves. tim roth is at his best. the first half of this film is fascinating and it sort of loses steam near the end, but still manages to be pretty powerful.
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MCT:July 27, 2008Excellent movie.
Very dream like.
The opening credits were done like an old classic, which the movie also plays like. Very good movie.
Music is very good and followed the areas where the main character visits throughout the movie.
Everyone should see this movie.
Francis Ford Coppola did a wonderful job on this movie.
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MCT:July 21, 2008
Underrated, Dunno why some people call this a pretentious mess, I personally liked it & Roth is great as usual
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MCT:July 20, 2008
Interesting movie, definitely not for mainstream only movie goers. If you appreciate some artsy movies then this will probably be right down your alley.
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MCT:July 18, 2008Here's an interesting movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Tim Roth stars. An intriguing story plot that follows a single man (Roth) through life, starting from old age as a professor, scenes from his youth as a student studying the world's languages, and of course, through a most life-altering event that has him pursuing a greater purpose. Great movie! A must-see.
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MCT:July 12, 2008
Malgré les critiques quasi-impitoyables à son sujet, le tout dernier film de Coppola me semble réellement digne d'intérêt par la touche de mysticisme qu'il parvient à apporter dans cette histoire a priori inintéressante. Orchestrée par une main de maître en celle de Francis Ford Coppola, une réalisation superbe qui combine originalité et splendeur est à l'honneur dans ce récit philosophique dans lequel un homme tente tant bien que mal de comprendre la raison de son rajeunissement soudain. D'un esthétisme tantôt féérique, tantôt perturbant, les allégories se succèdent devant un Tim Roth carrément excellent dans le rôle de Dominic, de quoi en faire un film original, sensé sans être lourd, qui se laisse bien absorber.
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MCT:July 7, 2008My daughter wants to see it, so I have to see it to approve it. Unless somebody has seen it and can tell me about it.
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MCT:July 6, 2008Coppola reminds me of Herzog: particularly with Coppola, looking back, you can see his masterpieces teetering on the brink of catastrophe. And, like Herzog, Coppola kept working long enough to see what catastrophe looks like. Tim Roth is great as always. He keeps signing with legendary directors and they keep screwing him.
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MCT:July 5, 2008
Though not a film for every one's taste, this is not a mainstream film, it is still a refreshing look at what movie making used to be. Sometimes a little too abstract...it plays like chapters in a Twilight Zone episode, all a part of the same story. I must say that the cinematography is some of the most beautiful I've seen in years, the framing, lighting, blocking, music, and acting are all a part of the web like threaded mystery of this film. To see what film making used to be, see Coppola's intimate, existential, and doomed love masterpiece.
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MCT:June 27, 2008
A complex and challenging film, from one of the great American directors, and part of the continuing magical adventures of Tim Roth(The Legend Of 1900), this time around Roth is a linguistics professor trying to develop a theory of the origins of hum...(read more)an language and conciousnes at his 70th birthday when he is struck by lightening that reverts him to his youth. Not only is he younger, but he discovers he can read whole books in minutes, see into dreams, and in the films most outlandish moments some limited teleknesis(but in all fairness it's his only way to stop an evil Nazi scientist who wants to jump start human evolution through electro shock). From there our hero meets a women who resembles one he used to know, who is similarly struck by lightening or near lightening which causes her to regress into previous lives. Naturally the two fall in love, and the odd couple are happy enough until her ancient language fits, get more frequent, and dive further and further into primitive languages, much to Roth's joy, though his love ages more and more with each regression.
Like I said Youth Without Youth is an ambitious mix of science fiction, world war 2 spy espionage, romance, meditation on death, aging, linguistics, the origins of conciousness, time, philosophy, the atomic bomb, multiple personalities, and reincarnation.
Watching Youth Without Youth is a bit like reading an overwrought but well written novel, where you can appreciate the skill of the speaker's use of language more than any profound statement bieng made.
Not that Coppola's subjects are not profound, or treated, so, just that's it's done in such a way that at first view it's going to go over just about everyone's head. Author Mircea Eliade, is better known as a religious historian and academic, whose work is as rigerous as his fiction offerings. This is a well made and well performed film, but it's zeal gets ahead of itself on more than one ocassion. -
MCT:June 25, 2008There's a lot to admire about Youth Without Youth, but potential for entertainment is not exactly one of them. I love that this is mature, historical fiction (as borrowed from Romanian writer Mircea Eliade) rendered beautifully by a master filmmaker, but damn if this isn't dull at times. Frankly, the movie's lack of focus is a huge disappointment. I had to watch it in three chunks, each forty minutes long, before I couldn't stand to sit through it anymore.
This got critically drubbed and made very little money (fortunately it was a low-budget effort), and I feel bad for Coppola because of that. It is a fantastic movie to look at, has actors of presence in Tim Roth and Alexandra Maria Lara, and offers up numerous good ideas by virtue of its source. Unfortunately, those stars are lost in the script they have to wade through, and that beautiful imagery just seems to swirl together without anything distinctive going on in it.
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MCT:June 21, 2008
Very pretty, but utterly pointless.
Stay away from it. It just....the ending was so disappointing. It's one of those movies that you expect to have to gain small bits of knowledge from so you can piece everything together in the end......Nope.
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MCT:June 12, 2008
Dammit, this movie had a responsibility to Coppola to be good.
I know what Coppola was shooting for. It was an abstract concept about aging. But the movie was too abstract and the film was just too aimless to really say much about anything. Every story gets t obe picked up and then it is dropped. Once you get involved with a character, the story takes a u-turn and ignores the main idea that it oh-so-gloriously started with.
The big perk of this movie, however, is that it is visually goregous. I really wish I saw this in the theatre. Coppola really takes a cue from Aronovsky. I wouldn't be that disappointed (outside of the runtime) to see this as a double-feature with The Fountain. It's a science fiction story without the burdens of the science fiction nerdiness. Rather, the science fiction is rather a point of amazement that characters just deal with in their normal lives and that's what I really like.
I don't really get the images of the flowers. The use of the rose is a powerful image and is extremely effective...
...if I knew what it meant. There's the jungian association with the cycle of life and the association with passion. If it is the cycle of life, the way the metaphor was used was extremely cryptic and somewhat forced. I'm meeting Coppola more than halfway on that answer, but I'll except it. The passion bit would be lost on me completely.
The study of language plays as one of the few central themes of this movie, but I couldn't tell you why it is the central nature of this movie. I understand time and immortality, but there's other ways to explore this idea that would have supported the story better. Really, this movie was just an overall disappointment and I hope that this does not discourage Coppola. Similarly, I hope he doesn't pull a Lucas (American Zoetrope) and delude himeself that everyone else is crazy and keep making movies like this. -
MCT:June 10, 2008
francis ford coppolas follow up to 1997 rainmaker, and a bit of a dull return, although tim roth comes off ok in this, playing a 88 year old transfomed into a youthful 40 year old, with various groups trying to get piece of him and his mind, a passion project for coppola, and it shows, just a shame theres nothing memorable in here, and after a ten year wait from the director of the godfather trilogi, conversation, and apocolypse now, a disapointment, it does look great though,
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MCT:June 7, 2008
What a strange film. Moments of sheer brilliance and inspiring filmmaking mixes with complete hoodlum and idiotism. Gorgeous sound-designing by Walter Murch, stroke of lightning has never sounded so good before. Mahlerisque- score blends in nicely with Coppola&Co's near psychotic script, which offers truly interesting ideas and sequences. Loses it's grip in the last 45 minutes, when the film turns tremendously campy and downright laughable. Watch it anyway, it's..something different.
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MCT:May 29, 2008This film SUCKS. It is poorly put together, the storyline disjointed, and it's BORING. I expected more from Francis Ford Coppola. He seems to be losing his touch as a director. I lost interest soon after the main character started to morph inot a young man from the age of 70. When his teeth fell out and were replaced by new ones...I rolled my eyes. All this suckage and the film is pretendious as well!
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Man o Man what a waste of time! I can hear all you metaphor and symbolic whores crying, "Oh, but you just don't understand the it! lol, I do and it's till stupid as fuck! This guys about 30 years too late for art films.
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MCT:May 17, 2008
Well it looked really promising when I rented it...but man. It was way to confusing, too many things going on in to many different scenes, it was way to long and the end actually totally sucked. Frances Ford Coppola, wth happened? He used to be such a genuis at making movies...but this was a a distaster.
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wow, una pelicula un poco larga, pero buena me encanta la direccion de camaras, y como juega con los efectos y todo lo que lleva detras, la filosofia china, la historia del rey que soñaba que era mariposa, y la mariposa que soñaba que era rey, y susesivamente jajajajaja... muy buenaaaaaa amo ese tipo de cuentos!!! y Eliade es un gran historiador :D
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MCT:May 13, 2008
The story line was a bit on the Lynch side, which isn't to say the film wasn't good. I just think I'll have to watch it another time to pick up on all the subtleties I'm sure I missed. Beautiful locations for this film and a fascinating attention to detail made it mesmerizing to watch.
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MCT:April 7, 2008
A surreal and fantastical journey into a man who's obsession with language drives him perilously close to death and personal lost. His entire desire to capture this pure antediluvian tongue revolves around him making decisions to lose his love and to be unselfish. It has a very innocent delightful swing about it, maybe because I feel attuned to the character and his love for linguistics, but his obsessional drive to really prove himself beyond man and this inner urge for this truth drives him to make tough over-bearing decisons. The usage of the rose was interesting, not so much as a metaphor but for it to be his love for beaytu that is never intrinsic and yet, it is his only thought for all time, this exterior worldly sweetness that destroys you.
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MCT:March 24, 2008
what a disappointment ..what a great director,he really doesn't need this ,first of all the theme was unrealizable and not at all understandable by any human being except himself who btw had really carried away this time.he combined some kind of emily rose exorcisms with some alter -ego maniac ,whats most absurd his aging process,the love of his life he loved her but he was killing her by getting her old ,then he decided he loved her so he let her free..complete artistic mess
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MCT:March 13, 2008
Actually sort of brilliant. I hate it when no one has ever heard of these great films. Excellent plot, cast, dialogue, cinematography, acting, basically just great!
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