Youth Without Youth (2007)

Réalisateur:

Francis Ford Coppola

Writers:

Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay)
Mircea Eliade (novella)

Release Date:

26 octobre 2007 (Italy)

Genre:

Drame | Romance | Thriller

Plot:

A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, a timid professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life. |

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novella | 1930s

Awards:

1 nomination

Avis des utilisateurs:

A Post-Historic Cinema Masterpiece

Ensemble

Tim Roth	...	Dominic
Alexandra Maria Lara	...	Veronica / Laura
Bruno Ganz	...	Professor Stanciulescu
André Hennicke	...	Josef Rudolf
Marcel Iures	...	Prof. Giuseppe Tucci
Adrian Pintea	...	Pandit
Alexandra Pirici	...	Woman in Room 6
Florin Piersic Jr.	...	Dr. Gavrila
Zoltan Butuc	...	Dr. Chirila
Adriana Titieni	...	Anetta
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Mircea Albulescu	...	Davidoglu
Dan Astileanu	...	Professor (as Dan Astilean)
Cristian Balint	...	Grenzschutz
Dragos Bucur	...	Bartender
Theodor Danetti	...	Dr. Neculache
Andrei Gheorghe	...	Taxi Driver
Roxana Guttman	...	Gertrude
Dorina Lazar	...	Cook
Rodica Lazar	...	Teller
Anamaria Marinca	...	Hotel Receptionist
Hodorog Anton Mihail	...	Doru, The Guard
Mihai Niculescu	...	Vaian
Gelu Nitu	...	Policeman
Mirela Oprisor	...	Craita
Alexandru Repan	...	Dr. Chavannes
Dan Sandulescu	...	Nicodim
Andi Vasluianu	...	Intern

Autre(s) titre(s) :

Altra giovinezza, Un' (Italy)
Homme sans âge, L' (France)
Jugend ohne Jugend (Germany)
Homme sans âge, L' (Belgium: French title) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated R for some sexuality, nudity and a brief disturbing image.

Durée:

124 min

Pays:

USA | Germany | Italy | France | Romania

Langue:

Anglais | Sanskrit | Allemand | Français | Italien | Roumain

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Son:

Dolby Digital

Classification:

Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Ireland:15A | USA:R | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud)

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Ana Aslan International Academy of Aging, Bucharest, Romania

Company:

American Zoetrope

Anecdotes:

The modestly-budgeted film was financed by the director's successful vineyard in California.

Connexions De Film:

Referenced in Coda: Thirty Years After (2007) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Middle Village

A Post-Historic Cinema Masterpiece

I never knew HDV cinematography could be so beautiful. The thing is this movie is not about the story, it's about cinema itself. It is not a text illustration, it's just a use of the text as a fuel to creating a substance - a new kind of cinema, a different kind. Story is just one of the several components & there's no use in accenting it. Coppola is so ahead of pretty much everyone working in art-house today, that it makes me wonder what has he been doing during all his directorial absence? It is not an experiment flick, nothing with an artificial sense here. It is strictly profound & subtle execution of the highly advanced & evolved cinematic accomplishment. This movie is an immense progress in the art-house Cinema. With all its niceness, MARGOT AT THE WEDDING looks so worn out, dated & punk when compared to YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH. Why is this greater than INLAND EMPIRE? Well, because it's HDV instead of just DV, & it's not shaky hand held.?! YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH is revolutionary in its visual appearance. I pretty much never have seen this kind of cinematography/production design before. It is a new visual language contrived by Coppola. & who are all these crew? Where did he find them? What way has he worked with/on them that made them the creators of this unique visual construction?

Matt Damon.

This should be a textbook to the art-house film-making. The film-critics are so out of touch that sometimes I have a suspicion that they are actually regressing with time.

Why do I love it? Because the viewing experience is different from any other including Greenaway's PILLOW BOOK. It is like meeting Cinema for the first time, like seeing the first ever movie, like discovering a new world or having sex for the first time. This movie is a high profile brilliance.

No film was used shooting this motion picture.