Youth Without Youth

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 Full Review »

For all its fussy lighting, upside-down camera angles, and overwrought impressionism, Youth Without Youth is essentially playful. It's also pleasantly meandering in its largely faked locations, and drolly matter-of-fact about its mystic visions.Read Full Review »

Ultimately, Youth Without Youth is more intriguing than it is satisfying. It hooks you, then lets you flounder.Read Full Review »

At its best, the movie's crazy in unexpected and poetic ways; at its worst, merely preposterous.Read Full Review »

A vast, lumbering white elephant of a movie--but I sort of love it.Read Full Review »

An ambitious but mind-numbingly tedious and often incomprehensible film.Read 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 Full Review »

The film is a sharp disappointment to those who have been waiting for 10 years since the master's last film. The best that can be hoped is that, having made a film, Coppola has the taste again, and will go on to make many more, nothing like this.Read Full Review »

The movie is one soporific, depressed, deadeningly vague scene after another.Read Full Review »

It's merely nutty, a picture that appears to have been made by an individual who has fallen off the edge of reason. Watching it was misery.Read Full Review »