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Youth without Youth (2007)

Tim Roth , Alexandra Maria Lara , Francis Ford Coppola  |  R |  DVD
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  • Actors: Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, André Hennicke, Marcel Iures
  • Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
  • Writers: Francis Ford Coppola, Mircea Eliade
  • Producers: Francis Ford Coppola, Anahid Nazarian, Fred Roos, Masa Tsuyuki
  • Format: AC-3, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Subtitles: English, French
  • Dubbed: French
  • Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: May 13, 2008
  • Run Time: 124 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0014FAIZC
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #52,777 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Youth without Youth" on IMDb

Special Features

  • Commentary with Director Francis Ford Coppola
  • Making of Youth Without Youth
  • "The Music for Youth Without Youth" Featurette

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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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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.

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If these things interest you, you will probably love this movie. L. Power  |  7 reviewers made a similar statement
Youth Without Youth stimulates one's intellect in a philosophical way. Wednesday  |  8 reviewers made a similar statement
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78 of 78 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH is for this viewer one of the most creative and genuinely intelligent and beautiful films to be released in some time. Francis Ford Coppola has utilized the finest points of his gifts as a movie creator and the result is a mesmerizing, quasi-hallucinatory exploration of the fine book by the Romanian writer Mircea Eliade. Not only is Coppola's screenplay challenging and complex, it is also a well-developed guide to making visual the concept of Eliade's at times perplexing story. The cinematography by Mihai Malaimare Jr. is moody and captures the surrealism of the tale, and the musical score is by the great contemporary composer Osvaldo Golijov who has taken every element of Romania mysticism and culture and translated them into a miraculous musical brocade.

Dominic Matei (Tim Roth in a brilliant performance) is a 70-year-old professor whose sheltered life has been spent in his thwarted exploration of the origin of language. The old man is struck by lightning and survives under the care of puzzled physicians and as he shows signs of life, Professor Stanciulescu (Bruno Ganz) is at his side, helping Matei to learn to communicate and eventually accompany him through his complete recovery. Matei grows young in appearance and is able to time travel through the decimation WW II brought to his native Bucharest, altering his identity as he is given a second chance at a life he never experienced, a life that includes a love affair with a woman who closely resembles his early love Laura and now falls in love with him as Veronica (Alexandra Maria Lara). In a Dorian Gray mode Matei lives for years as an ageless man, able to communicate with his 'double' who is visible only to Matei. His condition intrigues the interest and suspicions of both the Nazis and journalists and academic colleagues until certain tidal events change Matei's course and he regresses into old age, retuning to the moment of time when he was first struck by lightening. It is a story of the quest of eternal youth and the Faustian consequences that accompany that journey.

The tone of the film is operatic and with the majority of the cast drawn from some of Romania's finest actors, the quality of performances is uniformly outstanding. Tim Roth is remarkably superb in this challenging role, a performance that deserves acclaim from a very wide audience. YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH is Coppola at his finest. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, May 08
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39 of 41 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent art film or what I call "brain food" December 23, 2007
Format:Theatrical Release
Finally a relief to the drivel the studios push out. Youth Without Youth stimulates one's intellect in a philosophical way. You have to give it a chance so a few viewings without the distractions is recommended. Select subtitles for better absorption of what is being said. It is rather deep and calls for an open mind. If you can be gripped by the story that is driven by early languages, a story that explores Eastern philosophy, the various dimensions of ones consciousness, then you'll like this movie.

It is a personal film for Coppola, not one he did to make money to fund other films he wanted to make. Coppola captures the time periods well with costumes and visual cues. He's a director that believes you, as a member of the audience, are intelligent and use your instincts to interpret the specific symbols he gives you. Saying it is over your head means you just perceive the story in your own way. There is no right or wrong on your interpretation of meanings. It can mean what you feel it means. Pay attention to detail, to the words, examine the camera angles. Embrace the challenge of the film. This is one of those movies that you can never assume you will know what will happen next.

Coppola says the book by Mircea Eliade doesn't describe visually the character, but believes his interpretation of the story's ending is what the author meant for it to be. He wrote, produced, and directed this one for $17 million. Tim Roth and Alexandra Maria Lara worked in Romania often in extremely cold temperatures. Several dozen hours of make-up prosthetics applications for Roth as well as rehearsing with several languages and a new language created by author Eliade.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA, OPUS 23 July 23, 2008
Format:DVD
****1/2 2007. Based on Mircea Eliade's Youth Without Youth, this film was written, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Struck by a lightning, a 70 years old Romanian teacher survives and is rewarded by the ability to live a second life that will allow him to assimilate the whole human Knowledge. This is a haunting movie dealing with important themes such as time, love, oldness or Man's origin, it kept me awake late last night long after its ending. I wouldn't qualify this film as arty because its form and its story aren't incomprehensible for the lambda viewer. The themes handled by the director are intellectually demanding but their exposition is very simple; that's the mark of a great director. Highly recommended.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Better and better, the longer you watch it.
This film gets better and better the longer you watch it.

Interest in languages and European history will aid your viewing.
Published 12 hours ago by V. R. Padgett
4.0 out of 5 stars Real Movie News Youth Without Youth review
There was a great deal of hype inevitable to come with Francis Ford Coppola returning to direct a feature film for the first time (credited at least) in ten years. Read more
Published 12 days ago by Ryan
5.0 out of 5 stars Francis Coppola the filmmaker
This film, with a bizarre premise, is a reminder that the filmmaker behind “The Godfather” sagas and “Apocalypse Now” is a storyteller of remarkable range.
Published 1 month ago by Mark Hugh Miller
4.0 out of 5 stars Flowers For Algernon Variant
that much knowledge brings suffering but with more style, romance, mystery, and fear of aging. This is the type of film you must draw your own conclusions about what it all means. Read more
Published 2 months ago by mr. critic
5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH IS A VERY DEEP MOVIE THAT HAS TO BE WATCHED MANY TIMES TO UNDERSTAND IT'S MANY PARTS OF THE WHOLE. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Rhea Hurwitz
3.0 out of 5 stars Tim Roth as Uncle Scrooge.
This movie has some decent ingredients. Good music. Some creepy moments. Good premise. There's even some familiar Coppola-isms, like the "old becomes young" thing from "Peggy Sue... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Genobambino
1.0 out of 5 stars "Weird" in the worst way
It is just an eccentric expenditure of time. It might be moody and atmospheric, but REALLY it fails on every level. It might appeal to someone with a certain mental illness. ??
Published 6 months ago by Rextrent
2.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars no way.
I am surprised that there are so many 5 star reviews for this movie.
Like most of the negative reviewers I agree that there are sub plots that are never developed and that the... Read more
Published 6 months ago by rastaman
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but falls short
This is a film based on a book. Sometimes books make for great movies. Other times, they lead to movies that seem too short for the material that was in the book. Read more
Published 9 months ago by J. Dykstra
2.0 out of 5 stars Shoot me now...
I read Mircea Eliade's novella of the same name a few years back. I was thoroughly disappointed. It felt so pretentious; so full of, well...you know. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Andrew Ellington
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