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  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 06/11/2009
  • Running Time: 127 mins
  • Director: Francis Ford Coppola
  • Cast: Vincent Gallo, Maribel Verdú, Alden Ehrenreich, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Carmen Maura, Rodrigo De la Serna, Leticia Brédice, Mike Amigorena, Sofía Gala, Francesca De Sapio
  • Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
  • Writer: Francis Ford Coppola
  • Distributor: American Zoetrope
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Tetro

Step two in Francis Ford Coppola�s reinvention as a self-financed, off-Hollywood, personal filmmaker, Tetro�a moody job shot in carefully-framed widescreen and sumptuous, black-and-white chiaroscuro�is a marked advance over the Faustian, time-traveling absurdity Youth Without Youth (2007). Bennie Tetrocini (Alden Ehrenreich), an 18-year-old waiter on a luxury cruise-ship, takes shore leave in Buenos Aires, looking for his long-lost older brother Angelo (Vincent Gallo), whom he has idealized as a successful writer. Now calling himself Tetro�short for the family name but also Italian for �gloomy��the exile is holed up in an atmospheric port slum and is not exactly thrilled to see baby brother. Never mind. Snoopy Bennie insinuates himself into his cranky brother�s life, enabling Gallo to throw a few choice tantrums, and begins rattling the skeletons in the family closet. Having directed the greatest family saga in Hollywood history, Coppola can be excused for mythologizing his own clan��nothing in this movie ever really happened but it�s all true,� he told interviewers at Cannes. The narrative is a bit labored but, after decades of far more ponderous efforts, Coppola has found his way home. However overwrought, Tetro is neither a project nor a package; it exudes enthusiasm and love of cinema. Coming from the 70-year-old who once bestrode Hollywood Boulevard like a colossus, Coppola�s new movie offers best possible evidence of youth without youth. — J. Hoberman

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