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Youth Without Youth

Fantasy. Drama. Romance. Mystery Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola returns to the director's chair after a ten-year hiatus with this adaptation of Romanian author Mircea Eliade's tome detailing the arduous journey of a professor whose life is thrown into chaos as World War II looms ominously on the horizon. When the 70-year-old scholar is struck by lightning, his age begins to reverse as his mind grows infinitely more brilliant. Now determined to understand the ... [+]
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Ebert & Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
"Coppola's first film in a decade is perhaps the most complex, exasperating and challenging material he's ever directed" POS
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Boston Globe
Boston Globe
"'Youth Without Youth' is pretentious as hell but so goofily in love with the idea of itself that you feel protective toward it, the way you would toward a platypus that has lost its way"  NEG
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post
"Unfortunately, Youth becomes so lost in its own conceptual, convoluted vortex, it becomes virtually incomprehensible" NEU
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The New York Observer
The New York Observer
"Coppola's first film in 10 years deserves serious attention, but this massive dose of Nembutal only manages to render you too comatose to think" NEG
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Detroit News
Detroit News
"A terrible mess of mystical mumbo jumbo" NEG
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rogerebert.com
rogerebert.com
"'Youth Without Youth' proves that Francis Ford Coppola can still make a movie, but not that he still knows how to choose his projects (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"  NEG
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