Tetro

A through back to the theatrical traditions of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, Francis Ford Coppola's first self-penned film since 1974's "The Conversation" is a saga of family strife and Oedipal conflict.

17-year-old Bennie arrives in Buenos Aires in search of his older brother who has been missing for more than a decade. Their family emigrated from Italy to Argentina when the brothers where very young, but with the great musical success of their father, an acclaimed symphony conductor, the family moved to New York. When Bennie finds his brother, the volatile and melancholy poet Tetro, he is not at all what he expected as his older brother, greets him with displeasure. In the course of staying with Tetro and his girlfriend Miranda, the two brothers grapple with the haunting experiences of their shared past.

The film is gorgeously shot in lustrous black and white, with occasional flashbacks in color, bringing to mind the style of "Rumble Fish". A loving homage to both the French New Wave, and steamy 1950's melodramas "Tetro" is a disturbing, but gorgeously shot family tragedy.
SHELLY JOHNSON

Cast
Vincent GalloAlden EhrenreichMaribel Verdu: Producer
Francis Ford Coppola: Script
Francis Ford Coppola: Cinematography
Mihai Malaimare Jr: Music
Osvaldo Golijov: Spoken language
English, Spanish: Subtitle
English