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Youth Without Youth - Un'altra giovinezza
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Scheda film
Titolo originale - Original title: Youth Without Youth
Nazionalità - Country: USA - Romania - France - Italy - Germany
Anno - Year: 2007
Genere - Gender: Drama - Fantasy - Mystery
Regia - Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Soggetto - Writer: Mircea Eliade (novel), Francis Ford Coppola
Sceneggiatura - Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola
Produzione - Production: American Zoetrope, SRG Atelier, Pricel
Musiche - Music: Osvaldo Golijov
Data di uscita - Release date: 26 October 2007 (Italy)
Lingua originale - Lenguage: English - Sanskrit - German - French (a few words) - Italian - Russian - Romanian - Mandarin - Latin - Armenian - Egyptian (Ancient)
Fotografia - Photography: Mihai Jr. Malaimare
Montaggio - Mounting: Walter Murch
Scenografia - Scenography: Adi Popa
Costumi - Costumes: Gloria Papura
Durata - During: 124 min
Cast: Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, André Hennicke, Marcel Iures, Adrian Pintea, Alexandra Pirici, Florin Piersic Jr., Zoltan Butuc, Adriana Titieni, Mircea Albulescu, Dan Astileanu, Cristian Balint, Dragos Bucur, Theodor Danetti
Trama
Piatra Neamt, Romania, 1938. Dominic Matei è un settantenne docente di linguistica ossessionato dal linguaggio e da Laura, amata in gioventù e morta di parto. Deciso a togliersi la vita con una dose letale di stricnina, la mattina di Pasqua viene colpito da un fulmine davanti alla stazione di Bucarest ma la scarica elettrica, invece di ucciderlo, innesca un prodigioso processo rigenerativo. Sopravvissuto alla Seconda Guerra Mondiale, alla bomba atomica e alla Guerra Fredda, Matei vuole portare a termine il suo libro sull'importanza del linguaggio nell'attribuzione di senso al tempo. La proroga di vita e l'incontro con Veronica, incarnazione dell'amata Laura, diventano la possibilità per raggiungere l'inarticolato momento del principio.
Un'altra giovinezza, adattamento del romanzo del filosofo e storico delle religioni Mircea Eliade, può essere considerato una cosciente messinscena del tempo e insieme uno strumento di ricerca e scoperta dell'origine del linguaggio e della nostra civiltà. A un primo livello di lettura il film di Francis Ford Coppola è una fiaba epica e metafisica, da cui mutua la struttura circolare. Eppure, un universo più profondo ci attende. Dopo dieci anni di folgoranti incursioni ai confini del cinema (dirige la sua compagnia di distribuzione e la rivista letteraria "Zoetrope") Coppola torna con un'opera rivelatrice, la cui sostanza si fonda nella sintesi delle sue metafore e della sua simbologia.
Affidando il senso della propria parabola artistica ed esistenziale al professore di Tim Roth, il regista traccia l'intera traiettoria della storia umana attraverso la capacità di trasmettere significati. Coppola, in un viaggio a ritroso nel tempo, conduce lo spettatore al senso ultimo del linguaggio e dell'immagine. Come il Dracula di Bram Stoker, Un'altra giovinezza diviene una struggente epopea di amore e morte, una riflessione sul tempo e sull'eternità, un saggio sulla natura del cinema.
Ancora una volta impressiona l'abilità di Coppola nel rinnovare le forme visive e narrative, recuperando l'incanto dello spettacolo delle origini fino a raggiungere il "protolinguaggio" del cinema: la camera oscura che presenta l'immagine del mondo rovesciata. Rifiutando ancora una volta la rivoluzione digitale (pur girando in digitale), il suo film è un equilibrio quasi perfetto tra scienza e magia luminosa, quella che crea sullo schermo effetti analoghi al caleidoscopio.
L'ultimo artista totale del cinema americano, che ha saputo coltivare il successo e sopportare la sconfitta, che ha conosciuto il trionfo ma anche la morte del (suo) cinema, realizza la sua opera più personale e indipendente, lanciando sul mercato cinematografico, come Tucker in quello automobilistico, un "prototipo" rivoluzionario.
Plot
This is the story of Dominic Matei around World War II. He is a smart student who becomes a professor and then a 70 year old man. The movie opens with Dominic waking up and going to his favorite bar/restaurant (Café Select) in his pajamas in the middle of winter. He is intercepted on the way to the cafe and reminded of Christmas Eve and his under dressed condition. He returns grumbling about going to someplace where no one knows him. He has apparently lived a solitary existence because he has been preoccupied by his "work" (to find the origin of human language and how it evolved).
He goes to Bucharest to die carrying with him an envelope filled with poison. As he is walking down a street he is struck by a bolt of lightning which gives him third degree burns. He is taken to a hospital where he heals into a young man with supernatural powers (which he discovers as his life progresses).
He is helped out of the hospital by the doctor who nurses him. He publishes about his remarkable recovery and it arouses the interests of the Nazis. They send over a female spy who seduces him and talks with him in various languages. Dominic discovers he has an unnatural talent for learning languages in his sleep in addition to no longer seeming to age.
As his condition and abilities progress, Dominic becomes aware of an 'other' self who speaks to him in mirrors and his dreams. This other, who looks exactly like Dominic, serves as the voice of his condition and seemingly knows everything about his newly found power. His friend and caretaker discovers Dominic speaking to himself as he manifests two roses from thin air. This gives him great concern and understanding why the Nazis are so set on capturing Dominic for themselves, which leads to his helping Dominic escape. We learn later that this doctor died in a plane crash shortly after. Whether this is connected to the Nazis remains ambiguous. Further isolating him, Dominic also finds that the Nazis confiscated all of the research conducted on his condition from his time in the hospital, effectively erasing his existence as anything other than an old professor who died in a storm.
He is pursued by the Nazis who attempt to duplicate the lightning strike. Upon failing they attempt to perform experiments upon him. He ends up running away with the assistance of the professor and many anti-Nazi sympathizers. Dominic is amazed to learn he has knowledge of how to forge passports and hide his identity while eluding his captors, living much like a spy throughout the war.
He escapes to Switzerland where he has an encounter with the Nazi doctor who was attempting to create a Nazi superman. Dominic flees from the doctor but is pursued to an alleyway where the two have a confrontation about the future of mankind. The doctor is forced to pull a gun on Dominic when he realizes Dominic will not willingly cooperate in the name of science, though the female Nazi spy who'd been tracking Dominic intervened when she realized while tracking him across Europe that she loved Dominic. The spy is shot defending Dominic, causing Dominic to panic and utilize another ability, mind control. The doctor struggles as his hand slowly places the pistol in his mouth and pulls the trigger, allowing Dominic to flee the country.
A series of newspaper headlines show the decline of the Third Reich, ending the war and allowing Dominic to resume a life of relative normalcy, which he uses to continue traveling. His fear of misuse of the information he's been gifted with, such as the fate and history of mankind, he develops a secret language for his diary only decipherable by a supercomputer in the year 2010.
While hiking he encounters a girl named Veronica and her friend driving up a mountain and tries to warn them about an approaching electrical storm but they continue up the mountain anyway. When the local authorities show disinterest in investigating the mountain to discover their fate, Dominic goes himself. Himself and a cab driver discover the car of the women had run off the road, with the driver dead several yards away. Dominic immediately runs to a nearby cave with a lightning-struck umbrella belonging to the other girl outside. He finds her huddled in the cave, chanting in Sanskrit, which he greets her in and takes her to a hospital.
Dominic finds Veronica now identifies herself as Rupini, the daughter of a wealthy family in India, among the first disciples of the Buddha. With this information, Dominic suggests to the hospital staff that they contact the College of Oriental Studies in Rome to verify this, which baffles the doctors who assume she is suffering from amnesia and delusion from the incident. Several scholars arrive and respectfully greet Veronica in Sanskrit as well. They verify that Rupini was a real person, who had gone to a cave many hundreds of years ago to meditate on Enlightenment at the Buddha's instruction. The scholars fund a research venture to find this cave in remote India and take Veronica to it to unravel the mystery. A holy man greets them outside the cave and directs Veronica (still believing she is Rupini) to the place of her meditation, which she immediately recognizes and runs to. She falls down a sharp slope and passes out.
The scholars investigate the cave with Dominic and find sparse furnishings covered in ages of dust, as well as the bones of Rupini. Upon discovering her bones, Dominic's 'other' explains he won't be needed for a time and fades away behind him. After her fall, Veronica becomes herself again and no longer speaks in Sankrit. Some time passes and she begins to fall for Dominic while in India on this expedition, after which they decide to 'get away' from all of the well-meaning media attention they had been receiving.
The two elope to a Malta where they are happy together until Dominic tells a sleeping Veronica that he loves her, and always has. Veronica begins to writhe around on the bed as if possessed and begins to speak in a language even he has no understanding of. The 'other' appears to him as well and explains that she is speaking in ancient Egyptian, but as Rupini. Dominic and the 'other' learn how to control this state in Veronica, which for the next two weeks continues to show Rupini regressing further and further back through time, speaking languages such Babylonian and even older, previously unknown tongues. Veronica's health begins to decline from the exhaustion of these sessions, and after being mistaken for a 40 year old woman (she is actually only 25), Dominic declares he cannot continue these regressions as to do so would surely kill her at this rate. The 'other' disagrees and urges him in the name of science to use her to find the first language and complete his life's work. Dominic tearfully explains everything to Veronica, and leaves her weeping, begging him to stay.
Several years later, we see Veronica departing a train with her two children in France. Without being noticed, Dominic takes a snapshot of her and begins to cry when she passes without recognizing him. He returns to his college town where he taught as a professor and has an argument with his alter ego and shatters the mirror with his reflection. The 'other' is completely taken off guard, and yells "What have you done!?" over and over, slowly fading away. Before vanishing completely, the 'other' begins to gasp in an unknown language, then disappears.
Dominic returns to his favorite cafe that night to clear his thoughts, however while there he runs into all of his old colleagues, which is impossible as they were all very old when he first met them, which had been well over half a century ago. As more and more old friends from his past begin to join him and offer warm greetings, Dominic becomes more agitated and begins to age, complaining that this is a dream of a dream of a dream. Once reaching his actual age, he mutters to one friend that if he solves the problem he'll share it with them, which confuses everyone in the room. They ask, "What problem, Dominic?" to which he mumbles, "the one that we all have." Dominic stumbles out of the room and journeys out into the snowy winter night and dies at the bottom of a staircase. In the morning, a few townsfolk find his body greatly aged. They search for his passport and discover that it belongs to a clearly younger man of a different name (depicting one of his aliases from the war.)
Scheda tecnica - Data Sheet
Generale
Nome completo : Youth Without Youth.mkv
Formato : Matroska
Dimensione : 4,86 GiB
Durata : 2h 4min
BitRate totale : 5 587 Kbps
Data di codifica : UTC 2011-01-09 04:34:39
Creato con : mkvmerge v3.1.0 ('Happy up here') built on Jan 19 2010 12:09:24
Compressore : libebml v0.7.9 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Video
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Profilo del formato : [email protected]
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Durata : 2h 4min
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Lingua : Inglese
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Audio #1
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Durata : 2h 4min
Modalità : Costante
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Audio #2
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Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhG8vtn62VM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn0XGlwTKCI
IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481797/
Screenshoot
Note
Se il mio parere può avere qualche importanza è questo: un film stupendo, veramente degno di Ford Coppola.
Si parla di ringiovanimento (prima di Benjamin Button tra la'ltro) ma non una trama scontata, complesso ma chiaro nello svolgimento, lungo oltre 2 ore ma mai noioso, veramente grande.
Temi che vanno dalla realtà alla superstizione ma, miscelati jin maniera da rendere il tutto veramente reale.
Grandissimo Tim Roth in questo ruolo, grandissima dimostrazione di alta recitazione, sia espressiva che vocale (consiglio di vedere alcune scene in lingua originale) quando recita in lingue antiche.
Non vado oltre se non per dirvi che, come sempre, la qualità è veramente eccellente nonostante le ridotte dimensioni, il film si presta bene al formato, in quanto ad audio non c'è che l'imbarazzo della scelta con sottotitoli in tutte le lingue, proprio per il fatto delle lingue arcaiche.
Guardatelo, ne vale veramente la pena, lo consiglio in questo formato, ma, se non riuscite a vederlo cercatelo in altri formati, è un vero capolavoro.
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