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From Monsters and Critics.com DVD News Academy Award-winning director Francis Ford Coppola (1975, Best Picture, Best Director, The Godfather, Part II; The Godfather; Patton) returns to filmmaking after an eight year hiatus with Youth Without Youth. This Sony Pictures Classics film, starring Academy Award nominee Tim Roth (1996, Best Supporting Actor, Rob Roy, Pulp Fiction), Alexandra Maria Lara (The Downfall) and Bruno Ganz (The Downfall, Vitus) will be released on DVD and Blu-ray High-Def by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on May 13 for the suggested retail price of $29.95 on DVD and $38.96 for Blu-ray. For his first film in approximately a decade, writer/director Francis Ford Coppola adapted a provocative novella by acclaimed Romanian author Mircea Eliade. The resulting film challenges traditional ideas about consciousness and time. Coppola calls Youth Without Youth “a tapestry of illusion.” Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth stars Tim Roth as Dominic Matei, an aging professor of linguistics who finds his youth miraculously restored after surviving a cataclysmic event. Dominic’s physical rejuvenation and apparent immortality is matched by a highly evolved intellect, which attracts the attention of Nazi scientists, forcing him into exile. While on the run, he is reunited with his lost love, Laura, and works to complete his research into the origins of human language. When his research threatens Laura’s health, Dominic is forced to choose between his life’s work and the great love of his life. Commentary with Director Francis Ford Coppola
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