A really excellent Esoteric movie worth seeing "Youth Without Youth"

[MagickMuffin]

It stars Tim Roth :loveya: and the screenplay was written by Francis Ford Coppola.

A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, a timid professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.

1938, Romania: at 70, a professor of language and philosophy, Dominic Matei, contemplates suicide: the love of his life is dead, and he remains unable to complete his life's work on the origins of language. Then, he's struck by lightning. After a slow recovery, he grows younger. He must now avoid Nazis, who want to study and experiment on him. Some years later, he meets a young 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. Is the sweetness of life finally at hand?

I don't think the above analysis gives to much away, because it isn't exactly how I interrupted the movie at all. It left me wondering about the search for meaning and a great call for introspection on the duality of man, which is my own analysis of the story itself.


If you get the chance to see this I highly recommend it. It is being shown on On Demand in my area.

If anyone else has seen it perhaps we could discuss it.

[I Have A Dream]

1. I haven't seen it, MM, but I'll look for it on my On Demand listing.

I'm always looking for a good movie there. (They seem to be few and far between.)

Thank you so much for bringing it up here. :)

[Kind of Blue]

2. Me too! Thanks, MagicMuffin!

:hi: Forgot that I have on demand. You're right, I Have A Dream. I've completely stopped checking those listings for the same reason.
Sorry about that MagicMuffin! For some reason, Shalla Kali has been chiming through my head like a mantra. I've caught myself on several post but missed this one :(

[I Have A Dream]

3. It isn't available on my In Demand listing. Darn!

:(

[MagickMuffin]

5. Apparently it's showing on Starz On Demand

Perhaps you could rent it. I do highly recommend it.:-)

Sorry I didn't post which On Demand was airing it:blush:

[I Have A Dream]

6. I'll look for it.

Thanks for the clarification. :)

[rosesaylavee]

4. Tim Roth was in Rob Roy...

and played one of the most evil bad guys I have ever seen on film. Very silly of me but it would be very difficult to see him as a love interest. Will try to view when available on rental. It sounds intriguing.

[MagickMuffin]

7. Tim Roth does love to the play bad guys

But he has played some rather nonviolent guys.

Some of his best movies

**The Legend of 1900 (1998) ... Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900'

**Dark Water (2005) .... Jeff Platzer

**Vincent & Theo (1990) .... Vincent Van Gogh

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) .... Guildenstern



** One of the best Roth movies I've ever seen with the exception of Youth Without Youth.

Tim also has a new TV series on Fox "Lie to Me" where he plays a detective of facial expressions. He can determine when someone is lying by facial expressions and body language that he learned the skills while in the African jungles.

[rosesaylavee]

8. I will have to rethink this guy it seems.

Have to admit, Rob Roy was one of our favorite carthartic movies these past 8 years - nice to see a really really bad guy (read Bush) get his comeuppance.