Youth Without Youth (film)

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Youth Without Youth

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Produced by Francis Ford Coppola
Written by Novella:
Mircea Eliade
Screenplay:
Francis Ford Coppola
Starring Tim Roth
Bruno Ganz
Alexandra Maria Lara
André Hennicke
Music by Osvaldo Golijov
Cinematography Mihai Malaimare Jr.
Editing by Walter Murch
Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics
American Zoetrope
Release date(s) December 14, 2007
Running time 121 min.
Country Flag of the United States
Language English
Followed by Tetro (2009)
Official website
IMDb profile

Youth Without Youth is a 2007 film by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novella of the same name by Romanian author Mircea Eliade.

It is Francis Ford Coppola's first directed film since 1997's The Rainmaker. It will be distributed through Sony Pictures Classics in the United States and Pathé in the UK and France.

Walter Murch told the San Francisco Chronicle in May 2007: "Even though it's not something he wrote, it's based on a book Francis loves very much. I think people will be very surprised when they see it."[cite this quote]

The film was shot with a Sony HDC-F900 in High Definition and edited on Final Cut Pro 5.[citation needed]

The movie has been screened in front of friends and fellow directors after the 79th Academy Awards Ceremony (in which he was a presenter).[citation needed]

Coppola has gone on record as saying that the movie is very personal, and not a standard Hollywood film.[cite this quote] Originally the movie was to be distributed by United Artists.[citation needed] Sony Pictures Classics distributed the film when it opened in limited release in the United States on December 14, 2007.

It was also announced that a trailer for the film will be on the Collector's Edition DVD of Bram Stoker's Dracula, another film by Coppola, which was released in early October 2007.

The September issue of Zoetrope: All-Story was construed as a special tribute to Youth Without Youth. The first half, edited by Tim Roth, contains photographs by Roth and short stories that address themes relevant to the story. The second half consists of interviews with the cast and crew, inserts penned by Coppola about the film making process, and the complete text of Eliade's novella.

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[edit] Cast

[edit] Critical reception

The film received negative to mixed reviews from critics. As of December 25, 2007 on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 31% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 68 reviews (with an average rating of 4.7 out of 10).[1] On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 43 out of 100, based on 17 reviews.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Youth Without Youth - Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved on 2007-12-14.
  2. ^ Youth Without Youth (2007): Reviews. Metacritic. Retrieved on 2007-12-14.

[edit] External links

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