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VividSimon Simply Perfect

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

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TxMike During a lull in receipt of new movies at my local public library I found the BluRay of this movie on the shelves, begging for a viewing. I have found almost any recent movie on BluRay is worth seeing for the glorious picture and sound. This one fits the bill.It is set and 'filmed' digitally in beautiful Argentina, mostly in relatively high contrast B&W, with flashback scenes in full color. It works very well and looking back at my viewing experience I enjoyed the cinematography even more than the story.Yet the story is good, generally around old and new family dynamics. Set in early 2008, mid-40s Vincent Gallo is 40-ish Angelo Tetrocini, son of a famous musical conductor. He was a promising writer but left his American home and went off to Argentina where he no longer wrote. He doesn't want any connection to his family and has dropped his real name and goes only by 'Tetro'. If you look up the definition of 'tetro' you get " gloomy, sullen bleak, dismal, grim " and that pretty well characterizes Tetro. His younger brother is Alden Ehrenreich, about 18, as Bennie, about to turn 18. He has a job as a waiter on a cruise liner that has engine problems so he has a few days to look up Angie, his brother. But Tetro is not happy to see him, he makes that clear, but his wife urges Bennie to stay with them for the few days.Bennie discovers Tetro's unfinished manuscripts, which also infuriated Tetro when he found out. But they being all "unfinished" Bennie was determined to write an ending. he turned it into a stage play which became a contender at the May 2008 Patagonia festival.The movie is seldom fun to watch, well maybe the scene where Bennie, just having turned 18, is in a bathtub with two attractive young ladies. But it is a gripping drama and Gallo is ideal for the role.SPOILERS: The family dynamics were even more serious than we first knew, Bennis is not Tetro's brother, he is actually his son from a brief love affair when Tetro was 20. I'm still not sure why Tetro was rejecting even his own son but in the end it seems that there would be redemption for all.

Terrell Howell (KnightsofNi11) Francis Ford Coppola never really got it back after his incredibly successful run of films in the 70's. Ever since Apocalypse Now in 1979 he's released things that range from absolutely awful to pretty good. There has been nothing that can even compare to his earliest works of pure genius. But in every range of data there are outliers. Tetro is the outlier in this situation. You can't expect The Godfather going in, and if you don't then you are actually treated to a very good film. Vincent Gallo stars as Tetro and Alden Ehrenreich plays his brother, Bennie. Bennie is visiting his estranged brother in Buenos Aires in order to revamp their relationship. The film tells a story that is as brutal as it is touching, telling of all the hardships these two brothers must endure to find peace with each other and become brothers once again.What Coppola has done here is a very risky and fascinating move for a director of his stature. He's attempted to revert back to an independent art house style of filmmaking. Tetro is an incredibly artistic film that captures a surreal beauty in its glorious black and white cinematography. An arbitrarily unique style of lighting is used here to create a very dream like and imaginative atmosphere. Watching this film is mystifying in a way. It has a certain hypnotic power to it that has a very strong allure. Tetro's immaculate visual quality is something that draws you in whether you have an interest in the content of the story or not.However, chances are you will have some interest in the intriguing plot of this film. The story that develops between these two brothers is fascinating and compelling, and told in such a way that reality is blended with fantasy and we are never entirely sure of what is going on. There is deep subtext under the surface of Tetro, and this is something that is interesting to read past the already interesting surface story. The two leads give it their all when playing their compelling characters and, although we never develop a strong connection to them, we are still fascinated by the story they have to tell.Tetro is a beautiful film and Coppola has surely outdone himself after a run of such mediocre films. This is one I can say I truly enjoyed and felt deeply moved and fascinated by this immaculate film. It is a strange film that isn't put together perfectly, but the bizarre and chaotic patterns of the film make it work in a unique way. I definitely don't regret watching this film.

Framescourer This not-particularly-involving-drama is well-cast and has a rather good script but Francis Ford Coppola has done his best work now. It doesn't help that he tries to articulate emotional episodes 'through the medium of dance' in sequences that don't measure up to the ballets already name-checked, The Red Shoes being the obvious elephant in the room.The narrative has a considerable twist towards which it can wind up. Unfortunately, the breezy manner in which the characters circle one another, combined with the coming-of-age/road trip sensibility of the film (the beautiful Maribel Verdú of car-trip flick Y Tu Mamá También overbalances the story occasionally) mean that we have as hard a time believing the reveal as the disabused principal.The wonderful Klaus Maria Brandauer is wasted. I always enjoy watching Vincent Gallo and his performance is excellent - I kept asking myself why he seemed rather more 'on the leash' than elsewhere. However, his work is also boxed ineffectively in the final showing. 4/10

robert-temple-1 This film conceived, written, produced and directed by the renowned Francis Ford Coppola is empty and pointless. There are good performances, good cinematography, and directorial skills are in evidence. But why bother? Yes, there is atmosphere. But it is dark and depressing. The story has a germ of an idea to it, but what has happened to Coppola's writing abilities? He has in the past written such important screenplays. I suggest that Francis has nothing to say at the moment. Let us hope that his situation will improve, that he will pull himself together, and find something interesting and worthwhile to say. He is also in danger of becoming pretentious, possibly because he has been praised too much and for too long and is starting to believe in it. Waiting for him to recover from this is a bit too much like imagining Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for (Jean-Luc) Godard'.