Youth Without Youth (2007)

A-

You want a story? Look at the front page of your local paper. I'm here for the picture show.

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05/12/08

N/A

With all the nurses making moves on the suicidal old codger's renovated physique, Coppola's Youth Without Youth comes across as somewhere between The Godfather On Viagra and Apocalypse Then, Redux.

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05/09/08

B

Though not an easy film to grasp or possibly enjoy, it's nevertheless a mindblowing acid-like excursion into the secret world of Orientalism.

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04/13/08

1/4

This pretentious, impenetrable and deadly dull film never resonates as anything more than an aging filmmaker's feeble grasp at his own lost youth.

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03/26/08

2/4

Coppola was more efficiently mystical when he wasn't trying so hard.

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03/14/08

2/10

This is the perfect example of what can happen when a producer/director/writer doesn't have to answer to anyone. Coppola makes an artistic mess.

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03/04/08

N/A

It often feels like a dream -- specifically, someone else's, a nonlinear, illogical synapse explosion that's always fascinating to the person in whose head it detonated but not so much to those experiencing it secondhand.

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02/29/08

1.5/4

So much of Youth Without Youth is impenetrable, and not in a way that makes you want to solve the puzzle, but in a way that makes you want to knock the puzzle pieces off the table and flee the room.

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02/29/08

3/4

It would be easier to sit back and rest on his legend rather than press on as an average filmmaker, which is what Coppola has become.

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02/21/08

2.5/4

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.

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02/07/08

N/A

It's a clear case of an artist indulging his personal vision and getting so carried away by his muse, he's forgotten the most important rule of filmmaking: Other people have to sit through this s**t too.

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01/26/08

B

This film's playful visual language pulls you in rather than shuts you out; it isn't difficult to decipher, and it enables Coppola and his editor, Walter Murch, to navigate the story's many realms with a directness and dexterity that are refreshing.

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01/25/08

2/4

If making "Youth Without Youth" helped to clean out the pipes for Francis Ford Coppola and spurs him on to do better films, then that's great. The film has served a purpose.

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01/25/08

N/A

With a made-up language, Dominic asserts, he can "describe paradoxical situations, impossible to express in any existing language." This might be one way to describe Youth Without Youth, a movie conceived as a kind of insular language%u2014convolut

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01/17/08

1/4

...nothing less than a complete mess that often resembles an arty student film.

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01/15/08

B-

Coppola is still a master image maker, and there are moments of genuine beauty and cinematic power in Youth Without Youth that cannot be waved off with a shrug or a laugh.

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01/11/08

1/4

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.

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01/11/08

C

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.

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01/11/08