Tetro

A movie that "intellectuals" will love. Black and white (and color flashbacks!), geniuses (lol), foreign language, and a bunch of unknown actors, this movie was made for that annoying guy in your philosophy 101 class who just discovered Nietzsche and LSD and won't shut up about them. I think Coppola was just trying to show off how smart he is. The problem is is that he doesn't realize his script is horribly bad. Photography is nice but the characters are so terrible that I just couldn't care.

I hate Tetro, an unmediated bipolar asshole, who's supposedly a genius. We know he's a genius because, like all tortured movie geniuses, he writes brilliant scripts, which can only be viewed IN THE MIRROR (how quirky). I hate this whiny cunt more than I've hated any character before. No need to discuss the rest of "Tetro" - it disgusted, bored, and angered me. A really bad experience. Play Tetris instead.

Clearly a deeply felt passion project for Coppola, affection for this seems rise and fall depending on your affection for Gallo, who appears to be miscast; able to channel Tetro's self-loathing and discontent (and how!) but failing during the more emotional beats in the second half. The movie itself unfolds along fairly predictable, melodramatic lines, with the final third in particular toppling into near absurdity. Some excellent camera work means its compelling on a purely technical level.

Beautiful, thoughtful, lovely, moody movie-making...at least the first half. But when the dark revelations come and must be worked out, the movie loses its bearings, at times disastrously. It seriously overstays its welcome, and by the time the last "shocking" loose ends are tied up, you can't wait for it to be over. Gallo's angry, petulant persona keeps reminding one of a Sean Penn with a tiny fraction of the talent. Maura--a REAL star--and Verdú do the best acting, and Ehrenreich is excellent.

I don't know why, but Gallo tends to be typecast as a brooding and artificially melodramatic character who ends up creating more drama through over reactions. It doesn't make him a bad actor, but it's a bit irritating. Coppola doesn't do anything special, but he's really gone nowhere except down in the past twenty years. I guess you could find much worse ways to spend a couple hours.

This one was weird. It's uneven, focused, stylized (the b&w photography, and revealing much of the plot with color flashbacks), and is clearly influenced by the director's favorite movies (going as far as to have the characters name them and show scenes from them). This should be the debut film by a promising filmmaker, not a vet who hasn't made a really good movie in decades.

A little cliché and self-important, but nonetheless a reasonably compelling family drama. The three main performers are quite good, especially Verdu. Gallo's brooding gets rather tiresome, but he varies it enough to keep the character interesting. The black and white photography is really quite stunning at times. The themes of rivalry and daddy issues aren't the most original thing in the world, but there're one or two surprises to be had. Not a great film, but you can feel the passion in it.

Criticker's WAY off with this PSI! Holy God, it started all right, but by the end, I wanted to throw my TV out a window. What a pretentious pile of shit. It was like a 15 year-old's attempt to be artistic

Clearly, Coppola needs to re-read O'Neill and stop trying to be Soderbergh.

Bad. This is a pompous film made for critics. The beautiful Argentinian locales and locals shot in stark black & white with the flashbacks in color. A simple story without much depth coupled with an idiotic Star Wars twist (you'll see what I mean near the end) makes this a dull watch indeed, Not recommended.

Coppola is back to" Rumble Fish " style , but even better here. Some details are not so explicit, and you have to pay attention. It's the kind of movie you have to watch twice. You only have to close your eyes for a couple of unnecessary scenes so you'll have a great movie... good acting from Gallo...

i feel like i just watched a mime pretend to deep throat a baguette

it's clumsy, both under- and overheated in ways that aren't necessarily controlled, but i wonder if such sincere, vulnerable questioning--around matters of identity, legacy, the anxiety of influence and tyranny of tradition--could possibly be served by the polish and grandeur of his '70s work. it has a tricky relationship to that past, haunted and ensnared by the same light it fetishises, the form twisting around itself in a way that recalls ruiz, almodovar or gomes more than his own heyday.

6+

Francis Ford Coppola meets Pedro Almodovar.

The visuals and music create an intoxicating atmosphere pitched somewhere between sadness and longing with fiery overtones. Unfortunately, the plot twists are like something out of a bad telenovela, and a few of the colour scenes are badly done. Like Rumble Fish, the movie occasionally fails to connect emotions with ideas. On the plus side, it has scope and vision and exists in a world that's entirely its own, and the end result is a moving melodrama of uncommon artistry.

Gallo is fantastic in this, bringing his full Gallo-ness to what is already an interesting and complex film. He makes whatever he is in eminently watchable. The film also explores the interplay between art creation, memory, and brotherhood, packing all of that into what ultimately becomes a melodrama. I'm not sure what to make of all of it, but I dig it.

72.000

70.000

A very Shakespeare-esque script from Francis Ford Coppola; however, for me it worked well. Well enough to keep me interested for 2 hours. It isn't extremely original, but it's style and some decent performances make the film worthwhile. Not close to Coppola's best, but not his worst either.

oh my goodness the coppélia scenes were amazeballs

Francis Ford Coppola has been seen to have dropped in status ever since the 1980s (or The Godfather Part III), but not only would I argue that his late work is underrated, but this is a triumphant return from him and one of his best films.

12 Aralik 2009, alkazar sinemasi, 16:30, melike ile & filmi anladigimi ya da en azindan takip edebildigimi soylemem. (cok daginik bir film)

69.500

"By the end the film, the plotting has achieved an impressive, if slightly overcooked, degree of complexity." - Andrew Schenker

God bless Powell/Pressburger.

Alden Ehrenreich is seriously talented and I still can't believe he isn't Emile Hirsch.

The kid in this movie REALLY looks like Ray Liotta

Incredibly original with a few problems.