Youth Without Youth

Youth Without Youth

American Zoetrope etc.

October 20, 2007

Historical Drama, Sci-Fi?

DVD
D-

Pretty hard to watch, with all those hospital scenes in the first quarter hour.  Director Coppola adapted the novel by Mircea Eliade 

Vitus

Vitus

Sony Pictures Classics

2 February 2006

Drama

DVD
B-

My first (and probably only) Swiss movie in this project, this story of a child prodigy who's smart enough to fake his own cognitive decline doesn't work in every aspect (some of the characterization was unclear), but it's watchable throughout.  Fredi M. Murer directed and co-wrote.