Film Description
Tetro
Director: Francis Ford Coppala
Cast: Maribel Verdu, Carmen Maura, Vincent Gallo, Alden EhrenreichKlaus Maria Brandauer
Drama/Mystery, NOT RATED, not recommened for young viewers, 127 minutes, Language: English and Spanish with English Subtitles
Note: filmed in black & white, colour
(USA/Italy/Spain/Argentina)
"Tetro' is absorbing, daring and proof that, even now, Coppola's famous reach does not exceed his creative grasp."
- Rossiter Drake, San Francisco Examiner
"A rare cinematic experience on every level. There's been nothing like it on theater screens for a very long time, and it serves as a reminder of that fact."
- Ken Hanke, Moutain Xpress, Ashville
Synopsis: TETRO is Francis Ford Coppola’s first original screenplay since THE CONVERSATION. It is his most personal film yet, arising from memories and emotions from his early life, though totally fictional. It is the bittersweet story of two brothers, of family lost and found and the conflicts and secrets within a highly creative Argentine-Italian family. Fresh faced and naïve, 17-year-old Bennie (ALDEN EHRENREICH) arrives in Buenos Aires in search of his older brother who has been missing for more than a decade, and had sworn never to see any of his family again. The family had emigrated from Italy to Argentina, but with the great musical success of their domineering father Carlo (KLAUS MARIA BRANDAUER), an acclaimed symphony conductor, the family moved from Argentina to New York. When Bennie finds his brother, the brilliant but melancholy writer 'Tetro,' (VINCENT GALLO) he is not welcomed with open arms. Instead of the idolized, wonderful brother of his youth, Tetro is now a distant, self-destructive man who changed his name and no longer writes. Rebuffed by his brother, Bennie seeks solace from Tetro's girlfriend Miranda (MARIBEL VERDU). In the course of staying at their small apartment in the bohemian La Boca neighborhood, the two brothers grapple with the haunting experiences of their shared past when Bennie finds Tetro's hidden writing which reveals the reason for Tetro's passionate rejection of his family.
Official website: www.tetro.comScreening:
Tuesday October 20, 2009, 4:30 PM, Bayfield 7 Cinemas<
Saturday October 24, 2009, 1:00 PM, Imperial 8 Cinemas
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