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Youth Without Youth (2007)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Dec 12, 2007

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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Details Limited Release: Dec 14, 2007; Rated: R; Length: 125 Minutes; Genres: Crime, Romance; With: Alexandra Maria Lara and Tim Roth

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After 10 years, Francis Ford Coppola has returned. The real question is whether what he's come back to is filmmaking. In this patchy and ponderous mystico-historical disaster, Tim Roth plays an old professor who regresses to his hardy adulthood after being struck by lightning. He's doing ''research'' on the origins of language, but who cares when Coppola, lurching through the post-war Romanian settings, has forgotten the language of storytelling? The movie is one soporific, depressed, deadeningly vague scene after another. F

Originally posted Dec 12, 2007 Published in issue #970 Dec 21, 2007 Order article reprints

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