Youth Without Youth

[NEON MERCURY]

this is truely a remarkable and beautiful film, its one to soak urself in and get lost (albiet at times (un)intentionally)...this deserves to be rediscvoered and evaluted..even after a relatively shortn times after release....

[samsong]

given that i didn't care much at all for tetro, it came as a surprise to me just how taken i was with youth without youth.  a very unusual film, unbelievably dense to the point of being labyrinthine, which is probably the major reason why i had the intoxicating sense of reading a jorge luis borges story while watching the film.  apart from this superficial likeness, the film also recalls borges in the way it uses overtly obtuse text to strike a deep, resonant chord, humane and emotional.  this film is messy but in a way that suggest that it was made off the cuff empowered by a singular vision, teeming with creative energy that makes for truly exciting and compelling stuff.  it's also a crazy fucking movie.  SPOILER at one point tim roth uses his mind to force a nazi scientist to shoot himself in the face.  END SPOILER  comparison to the fountain is apt, provided that aronofsky's masturbatory wreck is considered the failed attempt at being what youth without youth is: an intimate, personal work of art by way of a genre salad and intellectual posturing.

i really loved this movie.  can't wait to revisit it.

[ElPandaRoyal]

I can accept the comparison between this and The Fountain, but to me Coppola's movie is far inferior to Aronofsky's. And the use of the word masturbatory wreck, to me, is what better describes Youth Without Youth. Some scenes even come to me as badly shot, something I've never expected from Coppola. The thing is, to me The Fountain always feels honest, while this one really seems like Coppola is rubbing in my face how much of a deep movie this is. There are good scenes in this, but also some cringe worthy ones. Anyway, like Ive said before, I ain't going to complain. Anyone with Coppola's body of work can do whatever he wants. He earned that right. I just wish he didn't drink the wine he also uses to pay for his new movies. I have a feeling Tetro might be more interesting when I see it (I like the theme), but even if it won't, I can always rewatch some of his older classics over and over again.