May 8
“Youth without Youth”, by Francis Ford Coppola
A 70-year-old man, Dominic Matei, decides to commit suicide because he knows he won’t be able to achieve his life’s purpose - finishing a masterpiece about language and conscience.
When arriving at Bucarest, and during a storm, he is struck by lightning. Burnt and in a comma, he goes to the hospital nearly dead. But Dominic gets better. new hair begins to grow in his head, new teeth tear his gums, and his skin and face look like the ones of a 30-year-old man. Along with this rebirth his mind shows amazing cognitive and learning capacities.
A movie about the thin line existing between life and death, the bright and the dark side of being. And about the possibility some people get of having a second chance.
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