Youth Without Youth is a 2007 film by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novella of the same name by Romanian author Mircea Eliade.
It is Francis Ford Coppola’s first directed film since 1997’s The Rainmaker. It was distributed through Sony Pictures Classics in the United States and Pathé in the UK and France.
Walter Murch told the San Francisco Chronicle in May 2007: “Even though it’s not something he wrote, it’s based on a book Francis loves very much. I think people will be very surprised when they see it.”[cite this quote]
The film was shot with a Sony HDC-F900 in High Definition and edited on Final Cut Pro 5.[citation needed]
The movie has been screened in front of friends and fellow directors after the 79th Academy Awards Ceremony (in which he was a presenter).[citation needed]
Coppola has gone on record as saying that the movie is very personal, and not a standard Hollywood film.[cite this quote] Originally the movie was to be distributed by United Artists.[citation needed] Sony Pictures Classics distributed the film when it opened in limited release in the United States on December 14, 2007.
It was also announced that a trailer for the film will be on the Collector’s Edition DVD of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, another film by Coppola, which was released in early October 2007.
The September issue of Zoetrope: All-Story was construed as a special tribute to Youth Without Youth. The first half, edited by Tim Roth, contains photographs by Roth and short stories that address themes relevant to the story. The second half consists of interviews with the cast and crew, inserts penned by Coppola about the film making process, and the complete text of Eliade’s novella. More at Wikipedia
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A beautifully crafted movie, but difficult to focus through the multiple aspects of the plot. Time travel? Nazi megalomania? Linguistic science? Schizophrenia? Overall confusing!
Comment by Linda (Love Movies) Moore — put March 14, 2009 @ 4:57 am