Youth Without Youth 2007 123movies

Watch: Youth Without Youth 2007 123movies, Full Movie Online – Christmas Eve, 1937, Piatra Neamt, Romania: Dominic Matei, a 70-year-old professor, contemplates suicide. The love of his life is dead, and he remains unable to complete his life’s work on the origins of language. On April 24th 1938, Easter Sunday, he takes a train to Bucharest to kill himself, but suddenly he’s struck by lightning. After a slow recovery, he miraculously grows younger and gains superhuman powers. WWII breaks out and Romania’s fascist dictator Ion Antonescu cooperates with Adolf Hitler. Matei must escape to Switzerland, because Nazi scientists want to use his powers…Some years later, he meets a woman who has her own passage through a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research…Coppola’s adaptation of Mircea Eliade’s surreal novella is a mysterious, romantic, melancholic and humorous journey to the outer limits of space, time and identity. Dreams become reality and reality feels like a dream….
Plot: A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
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Ratings:

	6.1/10 Votes: 13,708
	33% | RottenTomatoes
	43/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 178 Popularity: 12.257 | TMDB

Reviews:

A Pretentious Mess
Youth Without Youth is a pretentious mess. Pretensiousness is underrated in films today, but that doesn’t save it from not working. Coppolla seems to still remember the mechanics of film making, but he hasn’t recovered the fervor yet. His new film is a beautiful, and sometimes interesting film with fine performances. The fact that it doesn’t work is somewhat surprising, and mostly I think due to Coppolla’s script and the mediocre editing. It is almost worth seeing just for the cinematography, and the performances by Roth and particularly Lara who are fantastic, but in the end it just isn’t quite worth it. No matter how much I wanted to like it, I couldn’t. It just didn’t quite work.

We get too soon old and too late smart.
This film, shot mostly in Rumania and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, has some of the most splendid location photography I’ve ever seen. Indoors is all burnished gold and dark shadows, like “The Godfather,” and snowy piny landscapes have never been more snowy or more piny. The cinematographer, Mihai Malaimare Jr., ought to get a medal.

But when a character, the actual historical figure of Professor Giuseppe Tucci, played by Marcel Iures, remarks casually and in all seriousness, that “the mind presents the appearance of duality” — and says it in Sanskrit — we at last understand that we may be in for a long slog through some metaphysics. The images are unimpeachable but the thrust of the story is as murky as hell.

Tim Roth is an ancient Rumanian professor of Oriental Studies and is struck by lightning on the street in 1938. He’s taken to the hospital where is condition is pronounced “grave”, as they say. But after a protracted recovery he finds that his body has renewed itself and now, instead of looking like the man of 70 that he in fact is, he looks and feels like 35. It’s a miracle out of scripture, but not necessarily the kind of scripture we’re most familiar with.

With the aid of a psychiatrist, played by Bruno Ganz, Roth finds that he now knows even more than he did before his accident. Moreover, he can read and memorize books just by passing his hand over them. On top of that, he can predict the outcome of random events, which enables him to support himself at the roulette tables. And on top of THAT, he displays an ability to compel others to act without saying a word to them.

Ganz, the psychiatrist, has stupidly published Roth’s case study in the medical journals. Remember, this is the beginning of World War II and Rumania is in league with the Nazis — well, sort of — and a Nazi scientist wants to experiment on Roth in the belief that a million volt electrocution will result in a superior race. The Nazi has tried it on animals but has just been electrocuting a dead horse.

About this time, the viewer may feel he’s got a handle on this fantasy. It’s going to be the story of a guy with miraculous powers who is pursued by those who want to use him for selfish ends.

But no. The Nazis come and go without real consequence. The USSR occupies and governs Rumania. Roth has made his way to Switzerland but is still shadowed by journalists and mysterious figures who have divined his real identity, despite the cleverness of his false identity.

Then a bright-eyed and cheerful young woman, Alexandra Maria Lara, who may (or may not) have been struck by lightning enters the picture. She can now speak Sanskrit and claims to have lived a former life in Nepal. The film disregards Roth for a while and explores the character of this babe. As time goes by she begins to spout increasingly ancient languages — Egyptian, Assyrian, and seems to be working her way back to “the proto language”, which some linguists have actually proposed once existed. It would mean that language was invented only once in the history of humankind, at a single place and a single time.

But enough of the plot, if that’s what it is, otherwise we’re talking about A Skeleton Key to Youth Without Youth, and I don’t do that kind of stuff on spec.

“Wipe your glosses with what you know,” punned another famously difficult novelist, and Mircea Eliade knows his glosses. Cripes, he spoke like five languages and had a reading knowledge of three or four others. He was not just a linguist but a philosopher, a theologian, an historian, a novelist, and all-around egghead who taught, among other institutions, at the University of Chicago. I’d have killed for his curriculum vitae.

The rest of us mortals will have to settle for what we see on the screen and between Eliade’s musings and Coppola’s ambitions it’s hard to know what exactly we’re witnessing. The director and writer keeps the story simple enough. There are no pyrotechnic directorial displays and the images are lineal. But what we see follows a kind of dream logic in which events don’t necessarily turn on one another in a rational fashion. (If Roth can make a Nazi shoot himself in the head, why can’t he make his pursuers and tormentors go away?) Maybe the novel was better. (I doubt it.) Some books, however great, can’t be turned into convincing films. I mean, what is “Ulysses” all about? An aimless, scholarly kid gets drunk and finds himself being cared for by a cuckolded older Jewish guy. What is “Lolita” about? A dirty old man runs off with a precocious adolescent girl.

I’ll take a plunge and try to sum up the movie’s message. Knowledge and art aren’t everything. There are things that transcend logic and aesthetics. In fact, the pursuit of real ends is a zero sum game. Not only “a little learning is a dangerous thing,” but the more you learn the more danger you’re in. You may wind up knowing more, but at the expense of your innocence. A deep thinker’s “Portrait of Dorian Gray.”

I’ll have another Heinekins, please. Thank you.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 4 min (124 min)
Budget 5000000
Revenue 244397
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Director Francis Ford Coppola
Writer Mircea Eliade, Francis Ford Coppola
Actors Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz
Country United States, Romania, France, Italy, Germany
Awards 1 win & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.78 : 1 (b&w scenes), 2.35 : 1
Camera 35 mm Camera, Sony HDW-F900
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 3,411 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (some shots), HDCAM
Cinematographic Process 35 mm (source format), Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), HDCAM (1080p/24) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)