Film Forum

U.S./Germany/Italy, 2007
Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Starring Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz
Based on Mircea Eliade’s novella
124 min. 35mm.

Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei (Tim Roth) 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 (Alexandra Maria Lara) 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.

Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film

Reviews

“YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH is a narratively ambitious, visually sumptuous surrealist enterprise that tries to bend time and space together as neatly as the folds in an origami swan.”
– Manohla Dargis, The New York Times