A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
German, Sanskrit (Saṁskṛta), Spanish, English, Italian, French
Budget:
$5,000,000
Revenue:
$244,397
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Unfortunately, Youth becomes so lost in its own conceptual, convoluted vortex, it becomes virtually incomprehensible.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
10 Jan 2008
rotten:
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.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
11 Jan 2008
rotten:
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.
– Rene Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
11 Jan 2008
rotten:
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.
– Steven Rea,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
7 Feb 2008
fresh:
Youth Without Youth smacks of vanity project from the first poetic moments to the last, and whose vanity lays a stronger claim to the big screen than Francis Ford Coppola's?