Review of Youth Without Youth (2007) by Jenny C — 26 Jul 2008

I walked away not really knowing what the movie was about...

This review of Youth Without Youth (2007) was written by Jenny C on 26 Jul 2008.

Youth Without Youth has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Rafael R (167) on 09 Oct 2010

Interesting concept + renowned director = potential to be best film of the year but sloppy directing and lack of focus leave it an incoherent mess…

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By Jean-Francois V (150) on 11 Nov 2010

Youth Without Youth is like an Indiana Jones movie without action scenes: set in a variety of locales (Romania, Switzerland, Malta and India)…

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By Peter M (1,292) on 25 Dec 2010

Don't ask me what it means, but it makes you think and it makes you feel…

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By Paul K (987) on 29 Nov 2010

Too arty and pretentious to get any real enjoyment out of this. Could have been a great film in the hands of another director…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 14 Apr 2017

The movie is one soporific, depressed, deadeningly vague scene after another…

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By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

Everything is futile in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie in over a decade, Youth Without Youth, a sort of Indiana Jones meets pulp Proust…

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By Eric O (621) on 12 Nov 2010

To cite someone else's review I saw on here (Curtis Lilly), this just tries a little to hard to be cryptic…

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By Heather M (2,904) on 07 Dec 2013

Mihai cinematography is an exquisite delight making every frame a visual feast that is on occasion too much to absorb…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for Premiere (771) on 23 Dec 2010

As a fan and well-wisher of Coppola's, I wanted very much to like this movie, and I'll probably give it another shot once the DVD comes out…

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