Youth without youth

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Movie
German title Youth without youth
Original title Youth Without Youth
Country of production USA , Germany , Italy , France , Romania
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 124 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Francis Ford Coppola
script Francis Ford Coppola
production Francis Ford Coppola
music Osvaldo Golijov
camera Mihai Malaimare Jr.
cut Walter Murch
occupation

Youth without Youth is a feature film from 2007 . Directed by Francis Ford Coppola , who drafted the script based on the novel of the same name by the religious scholar and writer Mircea Eliade . The film was shot in Romania and Bulgaria .

action

The seventy-year-old professor of linguistics Dominic Matei, who was struggling with the idea of ​​suicide, survived a lightning strike on Easter in 1938 in Bucharest . As a result , its appearance rejuvenates by 35 years. A second self appears above the ticking of the clock , with which he is constantly in a dream-like dialogue and which corresponds to his rational side. He is given the ability to “ soak up ” books with mere touch and influence people through his thoughts to the point of telekinesis, and he continues to get younger. He develops into a superhuman and flees from the Nazis , who see him as a superhuman and want to carry out experiments with him. Similarly, he refuses to accept an offer from the United States government. Then the world war ends in Hiroshima and Nagasaki . Joe-1 followed in 1949 and the Ivy Mike hydrogen bomb in 1952 , followed by the moon landing in 1969 .

In 1951, Matei lived in Switzerland , where he developed a language in which he expressed his fear of nuclear weapons. He meets the pretty Veronica who reminds him of his girlfriend from student days. Veronica is also struck by lightning. From then on, in a state of trance , she repeatedly travels into her past identities at night , so she thinks for a week as an Indian from the 7th century, an Egyptian and a Sumerian, and exposes unbelievable linguistic material. As a result, she suddenly becomes famous and flees to Malta with Matei, with whom she is now in a relationship . The journeys of her ego go into ever earlier stages of human history up to the dawn of language , and at the same time, like The Portrait of Dorian Gray , it ages for him, so that the Faustian Matei asks himself whether he should stay with her for his book and thus to complete life's work with her help, or whether he should leave her in the hope of reversing her aging. He has a final argument with his second self about good and evil and whether the end justifies the means, and shatters it in a mirror . After leaving Veronica, he goes to the Café Select with friends of his time as a professor (who should actually no longer be alive) and then freezes to death in the snow with the third rose in his hand that his doppelganger had promised him.

Reviews

The film did not get a friendly reception from critics in the English-speaking world. On the Rotten Tomatoes website , the film was rated on July 10, 2008 with 91 evaluated reviews with 29 percent (9 percent of 11 top critics). At Metacritic it is 43 percent on the same day with 29 evaluated reviews.

Emanuel Levy wrote on emanuellevy.com that the film was “ challenging ”, “ complex ”, “ provocative ” and “ non-commercial ”. He has a non-linear narrative style and an absence of conventional characters. Its complex structure could confuse some viewers.

Verena Lueken pointed out in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that this was exactly the film that Coppola wanted to make: “ Nobody talked into him, nobody fooled into it. “The director “ said goodbye ”to Hollywood in favor of his winery long ago . In her review in the New York Times, Manohla Dargis saw a highly private, confessional and dreamlike work by Coppola. "[...] less a return to form than a new beginning, " wrote A. O. Scott.

Jörg Peter Löblein wrote in the Sächsische Zeitung Online : " Anyone who wants to deal with the last few things, of course, mustn't shy away from a certain complexity ". Rüdiger Suchsland at Telepolis : “ Coppola's new film is an intellectual impertinence - but this is primarily due to the original. Aesthetically , however, it is worth considering. [...] The pictures are flawless and wonderful, the black and white wonderful. [...] Cinema as a parallel universe. "Doris Kuhn described in the SZ :" Of course, here he demonstrates the longing for youth [...] . But that alone would be too easy. The other part of the message suggests that even a second chance doesn't change a life. You stick to your obsessions ”The editor-in-chief of the renowned Cahiers du Cinéma , Jean-Michel Frodon at the beginning of his article:“ He's back. […] An enormous film artist in terms of aesthetic development […] A visionary […] The ' auteur ' […] Strategist […] Pioneer […] The Coppola equation: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = cinema . "

Peter Bradshaw reported in The Guardian about a “ mystery romance that manages to be neither particularly mysterious nor particularly romantic. [...] that's the kind of promising curiosity that Coppola should have shot as a very young man before he got to his mature masterpieces. [...] it makes Coppola seem as if he were suffering from age without age: exhaustion without wisdom. "Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid likes the movie" maybe in a few years when I'm older and wiser. " Knut Elstermann , Radio Eins :" After a ten-year break, Coppola is back to confuse the world with a demanding, puzzled, tenacious and de facto inedible work, which in the end one [can] only credit for the fact that it does not care about conventions . [...] The plot [...] is presented so dismembered, kitschy and eccentric that in the end no one, certainly not Coppola either, knows where the journey should actually go. "Stephanie Zacharek makes it clear at Salon.com :" First and foremost, crazy [...] It was torture to watch. "

backgrounds

Francis Ford Coppola said he had returned to subjects such as " time , consciousness and the reality built on dreams " that he was interested in as a student. He told The Independent : “ It's a wonderful feeling. I feel like I'm doing what I wanted to do when I was 18. “Coppola said in an interview with Iain Blair ( Post Magazine February 2008) that he was very happy with the way the film turned out.

Coppola shot the film on a relatively low budget, which he raised from his own resources.

The film was shot in Bulgaria and Romania . The film was recorded entirely digitally in HDTV ( HDCAM ) using Sony HDC-F950 cameras . According to the IMDb, the shooting lasted 85 days, in which a remarkable 170 hours of raw material were produced.

The mainly by Alexandra Maria Lara articulated languages were prior science authentic. The constructed language Tim Roth was by Professor David Shulman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem designed, and for that he needed only a few hours. However, there was also a lot of dubbing.

The world premiere took place on October 20, 2007 at the Italian RomaCinemaFest ; on October 24, 2007 the film was shown at the Turkish Eurasia Film Festival .

As of July 10, 2008, according to Box Office Mojo, the film grossed around 2.4 million US dollars ( Total Lifetime Grosses ), of which around 90 percent were abroad.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for youth without youth . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2008 (PDF; test number: 114 335 K).
  2. ↑ a b Filming locations for Youth Without Youth (2007). In: IMDb . Retrieved October 23, 2007 .
  3. ^ A b c Jay Weissberg: Youth Without Youth. In: Variety . October 20, 2007, accessed May 10, 2008 .
  4. ↑ a b Rüdiger Suchsland: Beautiful women, bad men and Dr. Faust in the Twilight Zone. In: Telepolis . July 12, 2008. Retrieved July 12, 2008 .
  5. ↑ a b press release, under web links.
  6. ^ A b Emanuel Levy: Film Review - Youth Without Youth. In: www.emanuellevy.com. Retrieved October 23, 2007 .
  7. ↑ Verena Lueken: In search of the lost language. In: FAZ . October 22, 2007, accessed May 10, 2008 (No. 245, page 37).
  8. ↑ Manohla Dargis : The Folks You Meet on the Border Between Consciousness and Dreams. In: The New York Times . December 14, 2007, accessed on May 10, 2008 (English): “private reveries, dreams still locked inside the dreamer's head. [...] personal 'holy places'. "
  9. ↑ Also Levy, Scott, Bradshaw.
  10. ^ A. O. Scott .: Francis Ford Coppola, a Kid to Watch. In: The New York Times . September 9, 2007, accessed on May 10, 2008 (English): "[...] not so much a return to form as a new beginning."
  11. ↑ Jörg Peter Löblein: Is there actually a life before death? In: Saxon Newspaper Online . July 10, 2008, accessed July 10, 2008 .
  12. ↑ Doris Kuhn: The splendor of madness. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 10, 2008, accessed July 10, 2008 .
  13. ↑ Jean-Michel Frodon: The Third Rose Between the Teeth. (No longer available online.) In: Cahiers du Cinéma . November 2007, archived from the original on May 18, 2008 ; Retrieved on May 10, 2008 (English, N ° 628, November p.11): “He's back. […] A tremendous film artist in the sense of aesthetic invention […] A visionary […] The 'auteur' […] strategist […] pioneer […] The Coppola equation: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = cinema. "
  14. ^ Peter Bradshaw: Youth Without Youth. In: The Guardian . December 14, 2007, accessed on May 10, 2008 (English): "[...] a mystery-romance that succeeds in being not very mysterious and not very romantic. [...] it's the sort of promising oddity that Coppola should have made as a very young man, before going on to his mature masterpieces. [...] it makes Coppola looks as if he is suffering from age without age: exhaustion without wisdom. "
  15. ↑ Jeffrey M. Anderson: Youth Without Youth (2007). In: Combustible Celluloid. 2007, accessed on May 10, 2008 : "Perhaps a few more years will do the trick, when I'm older and wiser."
  16. ↑ http://www.radioeins.de/archiv/filme/2007/jugend_ohne_jugend.html phis-dead link | url = http: //www.radioeins.de/archiv/filme/2007/jugend_ohne_jugend.html | date = 2018 -12 | archivebot = 2018-12-05 21:46:14 InternetArchiveBot}} (link not available)
  17. ^ Stephanie Zacharek: "Youth Without Youth". In: Salon.com . December 14, 2007, accessed on May 10, 2008 : "merely nutty [...] Watching it was misery."
  18. ↑ Youth without Youth ( Memento of March 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ James Mottram: Interview: Francis Ford Coppola on the film he couldn't refuse. In: The Independent . November 16, 2007, accessed May 12, 2008 .
  20. ^ Iain Blair: Francis Ford Coppola: Youth Without Youth; His first film in eight years gets a Final Cut edit. In: Post. Post LLC / Gale, Cengage Learning, February 2008, accessed May 11, 2008 .
  21. ↑ Technical specifications for Youth Without Youth (2007). In: IMDb . Retrieved May 10, 2008 .
  22. Jump up ↑ This and That for Youth Without Youth (2007). In: IMDb . Retrieved May 11, 2008 .
  23. ↑ Release dates for Youth Without Youth (2007). In: IMDb . Retrieved October 23, 2007 .
  24. ^ Youth Without Youth. In: Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 11, 2008 .