Youth Without Youth
2,062
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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United States | Ebert & Roeper | "Coppola's first film in a decade is perhaps the most complex, exasperating and challenging material he's ever directed" | POS |
United States | 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 |
United States | The Washington Post | "Unfortunately, Youth becomes so lost in its own conceptual, convoluted vortex, it becomes virtually incomprehensible" | NEU |
United States | 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 |
United States | Detroit News | "A terrible mess of mystical mumbo jumbo" | NEG |
United States | 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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