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Youth Without Youth
Dominic Matei is a linguistic professor who dedicated his life to study the origins of human languages but ends up with the decision of committing suicide after years of fruitless searches. Fortunately, on the journey to kill himself, Matei is struck by a lightning bolt and is regenerated to a much younger man. With the fresh new body, Matei decides to live a whole new life that he would never regret.
2 July 1969, Brasov, Romania
27 November 1982, Bucharest, Romania
21 September 1958, Steinheidel-Erlabrunn, German Democratic Republic
10 May 1949, Bucuresti, Romania
7 November 1940, Romania
4 August 1941, Cernauti, Cernauti, Romania
13 June 1977, Bucharest, Romania
26 August 1926, Corabia, Romania
14 January 1962, Lipetzk, Russia
26 June 1985, Bucharest, Romania
January 10, 2008
Unfortunately, Youth becomes so lost in its own conceptual, convoluted vortex, it becomes virtually incomprehensible.
January 11, 2008
Although it's easy to admire what [Coppola] was attempting to do with Youth Without Youth, the movie fails on such a thorough and complete level that to call it a noble attempt isn't really fair: It's really a colossal miscalculation.
November 14, 2008
A stilted and inelegant work, well below par for Francis Ford Coppola
November 19, 2008
For all its flaws and there aren't very many, with Youth Without Youth you know you're in the hands of a master.
December 27, 2008
Very much a film of this era, its director returning after a ten-year absence from the cinema with a peculiar little masterpiece about things unrecoverable in time.
February 07, 2008
Youth Without Youth is so beautiful, in fact, that it almost transcends the epic bunkum of Coppola's script. But almost doesn't count, even when it is uttered in ancient tongues.
November 14, 2008
Coppola may be back, but he's a long way from being back on form.
January 29, 2008
The suspicion that all this froth builds up towards nothing but some poetic imagery is inexorably realized and sours the magic of the second half of the film.
January 11, 2008
A terrible mess of mystical mumbo jumbo, but you have to give Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth this: It is one magnificent and interesting failure of a film.
November 21, 2008
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?
January 19, 2009
Nem mesmo a bela fotografia e a impecável direção de arte conseguem salvar esta bagunça narrativa que, sob a desculpa de promover uma discussão metafísica, faz Coppola parecer um cineasta em início de carreira.