Youth Without Youth Critic Reviews
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In this film Mr. Coppola blurs dreams and everyday life and suggests that through visual and narrative experimentation he has begun the search for new ways of making meaning, new holy places for him and for us. He may not have found them yet, but, then, he’s just waking up.Read the full review
Ultimately, Youth Without Youth is more intriguing than it is satisfying. It hooks you, then lets you flounder.Read the full review
In the context of Coppola's life and career, the film has a searching intelligence and ambition that can't be entirely dismissed; with his own money and nobody looking over his shoulder, Coppola has gone uprriver again in an effort to reinvent himself and cinema in the process. He ultimately fails, but he can't be faulted for trying.Read the full review
At its best, the movie's crazy in unexpected and poetic ways; at its worst, merely preposterous.Read the full review
An ambitious but mind-numbingly tedious and often incomprehensible film.Read the full review
A vast, lumbering white elephant of a movie--but I sort of love it.Read the full review
Lush and heartfelt, but compelling only in fits and starts.Read the full review
Lacking coherence and suspense, the picture is likely to attract a cult following while disappointing Coppola's fan base.Read the full review
Attempting to harness multiple genres, pic is brought down by ponderous dialogue (much of it dubbed) and an inability to connect with its characters.Read the full review
Unfortunately, "Youth" becomes so lost in its own conceptual, convoluted vortex, it becomes virtually incomprehensible. Coppola proves that even the best of our film artists can lose sight of what this medium is all about: entertaining, enlightening and including its audience.Read the full review
