Synopsis
Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
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Cast
- Tim RothDominic Matei
- Alexandra Maria LaraVeronica / Laura
- Bruno GanzProfessor Stanciulescu
- André HennickeDr. Josef Rudolf
- Marcel IureșProfessor Tucci
- Adrian PinteaPandit
- Florin Piersic Jr.Dr. Gavrila
- Matt DamonLife Magazine Reporter (uncredited)
- Roxana GuttmanGertrude
- Anamaria MarincaHotel Receptionist
Recommandations
- 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Half the time in the mystical saga Youth Without Youth, I had no idea what the movie was about, but I always felt that the director and screenwriter, Francis Ford Coppola, did, and that he was deeply in tune--and having a hell of a time--with the material. - 70
Village Voice
For all its fussy lighting, upside-down camera angles, and overwrought impressionism, Youth Without Youth is essentially playful. It's also pleasantly meandering in its largely faked locations, and drolly matter-of-fact about its mystic visions. - 63
Premiere
As a fan and well-wisher of Coppola's, I wanted very much to like this movie, and I'll probably give it another shot once the DVD comes out. But, at first sight, Youth Without Youth's striving for exuberance reveals an almost desperate effort too much of the time. - 58
The A.V. Club
In the context of Coppola's life and career, the film has a searching intelligence and ambition that can't be entirely dismissed; with his own money and nobody looking over his shoulder, Coppola has gone uprriver again in an effort to reinvent himself and cinema in the process. He ultimately fails, but he can't be faulted for trying. - 50
USA Today
An ambitious but mind-numbingly tedious and often incomprehensible film. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Lacking coherence and suspense, the picture is likely to attract a cult following while disappointing Coppola's fan base. - 40
Variety
Attempting to harness multiple genres, pic is brought down by ponderous dialogue (much of it dubbed) and an inability to connect with its characters. - 40
Empire
Not quite a complete write-off, but basically a folly.
