Francis Ford Coppola’s rendition of Mircea Eliade’s novel Youth Without Youth opens with a montage of clocks woozily bending. These…
Youth Without Youth
In this critical discussion, scholars join in conversation around the release of Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in over a decade, an adaptation of Mircea Eliade’s 1988 novella Youth Without Youth. Blending surrealism and realism, blurring the lines between supernatural forces and reality, this novella and its film adaptation spark questions for the philosopher inside each of us.
zzDeciphered by means of a perfected computer
Seen with a genealogical eye, Youth Without Youth speaks to the sheer danger of the sacred as the robust object…
Realizing Eliade’s Dream
Francis Ford Coppola has made Eliade whole again. He has given him back to us. Youth Without Youth is a…
Repossessing the past
By some sort of happy coincidence—or to use the surrealist term referenced by Jeremy Biles, “objective chance”—I watched Youth Without…
The third rose
"Youth Without Youth" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Gun violence, sexual congress, female nudity,…
The butterfly’s unconscious
Youth Without Youth takes us through a strange loop that demands us both cognitively and visually to ask similar questions…