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Youth Without Youth

2007 · 125 min

A dreamy, philosophical puzzle that drifts between eras and languages, rewarding patience with haunting images and a quiet ache of loss.

Genres
Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
Overview
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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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • memory
  • love
  • aging
  • fate
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
  • hospital
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour1
Realism3
Romance6
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity9
Emotional weight8

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Genres
fantasy, drama, mystery
Directed by
Francis Ford Coppola
Written by
Francis Ford Coppola
Starring
Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, André Hennicke, Marcel Iureș, Adrian Pintea, Florin Piersic Jr., Zoltan Butuc
Music
Osvaldo Golijov
Cinematography
Mihai Malaimare Jr.
Runtime
125 min
Country
United States of America, Romania, France, Italy
Languages
German, Sanskrit, Spanish, English, Italian, French

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