Youth Without Youth

I finally made it through this film on my third attempt. It was kind of slow at the beginning while still being interesting. Once it gets going you get into it a little more. I like the part where the guy... Full review

I found the entire film to be boring and strung out. The film was trying hard to be original, but it was a good idea to start with, but just went downhill from there. There is a lot of unnecessary dialogue,... Full review

I LIKE COPPOLA FILMS.BUT THIS FILM HAVE A BAD ROMANTIK FILM I EVER SEE. STORY OF THIS FILM NOT A GOOD FOR ALL PEOPLE TO LOVE SEE FILMS.BUT I LIKE THIS FILM. THATS A GOOD STRENG FILM.... Full review

I know I am in the minority here but in my opinion, "Youth Without Youth" is the best film that Francis Ford Coppala has ever made.My apologies to fans of "The Godfather" films and "Apocalypse Now." While his more popular... Full review

I've seen movies that purport to reveal great truths. Those movies fall flat because the revelations they make are not very revealing. This movie doesn't reveal truths of that sort but nonetheless shows the mindset and tribulations of people who... Full review

I was surprised and fortunate to find a movie of this caliber by chance, since I'd never heard of the release; at first, I actually thought it was an old movie, one that I hadn't seen. I' am bewildered and... Full review

I was flabbergasted to see that a lot of the comments for this film were negative. The fact that the movie is not of a commercial nature doesn't make it bad, it just makes it less accessible. In this manner,... Full review

The movie was all over the place. I found it boring. Coppola is such a great director but the movie simply thouht is was better than it was. One of those movies that just doesn't work.... Full review

This is definitely not everyone's cup of tea and has a pretty good chance of becoming a cult film. It explores major philosophic subjects from a dialectic angle, which might confuse pedestrians. In a nutshell: an elderly professor is challenged... Full review

It was bound to happen that Youth Without Youth, the first film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola in fifteen years (the first directed in ten), would be lauded by the critics for not being a real "comeback" kind... Full review

With the lush and enigmatic Youth Without Youth , cinema luminary Francis Ford Coppola has ended a decade-long directorial hiatus.....The initial scenes are actually very enticing..... ... Full Review

Tim Roth, by the way, is a superb actor and he does very well in an impossible role;....The synopsis that serves as a guide to the film's content is an oversimplified, almost inaccurate rendition of the plot defying elements.....This film, based on a novella, takes us into the spiritual and the metaphysical, the real and the imagined/dreamt..... ... Full Review

The film's good looks come as no surprise. But as he lies in hospital, cared for by a compassionate Bruno Ganz as his doctor, he undergoes an extraordinary rejuvenation. However wacky his material, Coppola has always managed to entice the eye. ... Full Review

Many of Francis Ford Coppola's films, including the recent Youth Without Youth , have been haunted by the passing of time and an acute awareness of its destructive handiwork, the sense that once a treasured moment has been lost, nothing can be done to recover it. ... Full Review

Whatever the hidden meaning behind the movie is, it is still an entertaining film that keeps one thinking throughout the entire movie.....It seems like no one can really make up their mind on the point of this film.Yes the movie is very artsy and confusing.... ... Full Review

By ALISON MUTLER, Associated Press Writer Alison Mutler, Associated Press Writer - 26 mins ago BUCHAREST, Romania - Gheorghe Dinica, a Romanian actor who delighted his country by portraying characters such as villainous politicians and defiant Gypsies in dozens of... ... Full Article

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Gheorghe Dinica, a Romanian actor who delighted his country by portraying characters such as villainous politicians and defiant Gypsies in dozens of plays and movies, died Tuesday. ... Full Article

SYNOPSIS: Dominic Matei (Tim Roth) is an aging professor of linguistics in 1938 Romania who survives a cataclysmic event to find his youth miraculously restored. ... Full Article

Then Aurel receives a phone call that his wife has killed himself. And he finds himself, like a modern-day Don Quixote, fighting not windmills (nor the pyramids - the film never leaves Romania) but the image of a woman he... ... Full Article

"The Phantom Father," a feature film based on a story by Barry Gifford , has been completed in Romania, Gifford reports. The English-language film, directed by Lucian Georgescu , is a road movie about a Stanford professor and biographer who... ... Full Article

Ruth Hessey Youth Without Youth smacks of vanity project from the first poetic moments to the last, and whose vanity lays a stronger claim to the big screen than Francis Ford Coppola's? ... Full Article