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Youth Without Youth [Blu-ray] | ![Youth Without Youth [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Wp9Lp0ZyL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: Bruno Ganz, Tim Roth, Andre Hennicke, Adrian Pintea, Marcel Iures
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 19761
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), German (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Romanian (Original Language), Russian (Original Language), Sanskrit (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), German (Dubbed), Italian (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 125
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.4
MPN: COLBR25614
UPC: 043396256149
EAN: 0043396256149
ASIN: B0014I4TR2
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: May 13, 2008
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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/13/2008 Run time: 146 minutes Rating: R
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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 Stills from Youth Without Youth (click for larger image) Beyond Youth Without Youth 
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 FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA, OPUS 23 July 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
****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.
 For film students and philosophers July 14, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Because nobody else is going to enjoy it. I had high hopes for this film that were entirely unrealized. The premise of the movie isn't even original - a man endures an accident and grows younger, to be pursued by those who want to understand and exploit his secret. Stephen King did that in 1991's Golden Years, and it wasnt that interesting then.
The only positive comment I can make about this movie is that it's visually interesting - the cinematography and period recreation is well done. Otherwise this is a rambling incoherent mess passing itself off as a stream of consciousness film.
This is an art film. If you're someone who enjoys perusing art galleries trying to intellectualize and decipher meaning from abstract images, then you'll enjoy this. If you're seeking to be entertained for entertainments sake, put this movie down and step slowly away.
 Confusing, boring and pretentious June 21, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
There were great expectations with this movie, ten years after the latest Coppola movie.The result, however, seems very disappointing. There's no doubt that the photography is gorgeous; but that's all about its merits. Actually, there's about 8 to 10 movies in here and none makes complete sense. The first plot about a 70 year-old linguist who is literally hit by a thunderbolt and regains youth takes you to another one and then another and then another, with thin (or none)substantial relation between them, being its pretentiousness the only linking root. Crowded with bizarre characters, the confusing story depicts - besides the hero - a wise scientist, a bunch of nazis trying to kidnap the linguist, a girl with memories of lost love, spies, more nazis and many more. The intriguing anecdotes take you from Rumania to India, Malta and Switzerland, but actually the movie goes nowhere. I's hard to make much sense out of such a muddle. And it's also hard to believe that this pretentious, over-plotted, awfully boring and sometimes ludicrous hotch potch belongs to the same creator who gave such masterpieces like THE GODFATHER TRILOGY or APOCALYPSE NOW.
A good film at last !!! June 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This fascinating film is not "run-of-the-mill". Flooded with thousands of titles every year we struggle in a deep deficit of films that appeal to intellectual speculation. Based on an excellent story by Mircea Eliade, it takes Coppola to deal with the unreal with the same objectivity as with the real. Excellent interpretations.
 Partly Brilliant, Partly Pretentious, Partly Radiant June 5, 2008
4 out of 13 found this review helpful
I have very mixed feelings about this film. The idea of two people struck by lightning - one who grows young and the other who grows old - who just happen to fall in love is, to put it bluntly, an absurdity. Yes it is true that the director explores some interesting philosophical ideas, particularly Eastern wisdom, but overall I found the project disjointed and imperfect. Some of the powers of the main protagonist, such as
digesting a book's contents by merely passing his hand over the volume, are utterly unconvincing. Interesting ideas, beautiful cinematography, and good acting cannot overcome weaker plot and poorer editing. As it turns out, I much preferred that other (science) fiction movie about a person struck by lightning, entitled "Powder."
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