I am looking in my memory if i can find a worse nutty screenplay in some obscure 70's b-movie but i really can't think of anything so ridiculous and grotesque that is at same time so "ambitious". except for some good filmography, the movie is a real disaster. A large variety of cheap exotic stereotypes that remind of commercials, a confusing, silly and pretentious mixture of fashionable oriental philosophies, low-budget science-fiction, the exorcist, ultra-shallow pseudo-philosophy on human consciousness and time. (But plenty of big, "difficult" words to make you think this is really serious stuff, man!) I could quote some really funny dialogs: "what birds do they have in Malta" "that's a Maltese falcon" (surely very typical of Malta, no doubt about it!) "when i saw you in the cavern, i thought that if i had been 3 or 4 years older, i would marry you" (why the damn just three or four years older???) "the metha... what is that??" anyway, you must see it - and hear it - to believe it. I specially found hilarious the part where Tim Roth invents his own language and start babbling something in a very funny language and also the part where the girl continuously goes through exorcist-like night crisis and each time swtiches to a different language: Sumerian, Babylonian (maybe northern Babylonian?) And the haunting question: where do you want me to put the third rose? (and everyone secretly thinking: up your ass!!!) I really felt ashamed for poor Coppola but still it was hilarious. Movies like this must have a serious psychiatric impact on the public.
Review of Youth Without Youth
