Tetro USA / Italy / Spain / Argentina
2009, 127min.
Prod./Script/Dir.: Francis Ford Coppola, Dir. of Phot.: Mihai Malaimare, Jr, Compos.: Osvaldo Golijov, Prod. Design: Sebastian Orgambide, Sound Edit.: Federico Esquerro, Edit.: Walter Murch.
Cast: Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, Maribel Verdú, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Carmen Maura, Rodrigo De La Serna, Leticia Bredice, Mike Amigorena, Sofía Castiglione, Érica Rivas.
17-year-old Bennie arrives in Buenos Aires in search of his elder brother who has been missing for more than a decade, and had sworn never to see any of his family again. The family of Italian immigrants settled in Argentina, but with the great musical success of their domineering father Carlo, an acclaimed symphony conductor, moved to New York. When Bennie finds his brother, the brilliant but melancholy writer Tetro, 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 has changed his name and no longer writes. He is on crutches after an accident in which he was hypnotized by the headlights of an oncoming bus. Rebuffed by his brother, Bennie seeks solace from Tetro's girlfriend Miranda. Staying at their small apartment in the bohemian La Boca neighborhood, Bennie finds Tetro's hidden writing, which reveals the reason for Tetro's rejection of his family. Miranda, who has taken Bennie to heart, sees him with the writing and warns him that Tetro was likely to explode should he find out. Bennie persists to write the missing ending to one of Tetro's plays. When Bennie is hospitalized after an accident, Miranda relents and secretly brings him the manuscript. Tetro finds Bennie working and a violent fight ensues. The great literary critic 'Alone' reads the play and selects it as one of the finalists for the most significant literary prize in Argentina, to be awarded at her estate in Patagonia. In the course of the journey through Patagonia, Tetro mysteriously disappears into the night and a worried Miranda searches for him along the highway. At the awards ceremony in Patagonia, Tetro reappears, and in their play, the two brothers re-live the haunting truth of their shared past. The same night, they receive the news of their father’s death. The extended family gathers in Buenos Aires at a state funeral, and an overwhelmed Bennie disappears into the night, walking into the hypnotic glare of oncoming cars on the highway. Tetro follows him and rescues his brother, finally accepting that they are a family.
Production Company
American Zoetrope
| Coppola, Francis Ford Francis Ford Coppola (born 07.04.1939, Detroit, Michigan, USA)
He grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father was a composer and musician Carmine Coppola. His mother had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated with a degree in drama from Hofstra University, and did graduate work at UCLA in filmmaking. He was training as assistant with filmmaker Roger Corman, working in such capacities as soundman, dialogue director, associate producer and, eventually, director of Dementia 13 (1963), Coppola's first feature film. During the next four years, Coppola was involved in a variety of script collaborations., including Patton, the film for which Coppola won a Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award. In 1966, Coppola's 2nd film brought him critical acclaim and a Master of Fine Arts degree. In 1969, Coppola and George Lucas established American Zoetrope, an independent film production company based in San Francisco. The company's first project was THX 1138 (1971), produced by Coppola and directed by Lucas. Coppola also produced the second film that Lucas directed, American Graffiti in 1973. This movie got five Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture.In 1972, Coppola's film The Godfather became one of the highest-grossing movies in history and brought him an Oscar for writing the screenplay with Mario Puzo The film was a Best Picture Academy Award-winner, and also brought Coppola a Best Director Oscar nomination. Coppola's next film was The Conversation (1974), which was honored with the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes IFF, and brought Coppola Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay Oscar nominations. The Godfather: Part II (1974). rivaled the success of The Godfather (1972), and won six Academy Awards, bringing Coppola Oscars as a producer, director and writer. Coppola then began work on his most ambitious film, Apocalypse Now (1979), a Vietnam War epic that was inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Released in 1979, the acclaimed film won a Golden Palm Award at the Cannes IFF, and two Academy Awards. With George Lucas, Coppola executive produced Kagemusha, directed by Akira Kurosawa, and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, directed by Paul Schrader, and based on the life and writings of Yukio Mishima.
Filmography
Dementia 13 (1963), You're a Big Boy Now (1966), Finian's Rainbow (1968), The Rain People (1969), The Godfather (1972), The Conversation (1974), The Godfather: Part II (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), One from the Heart (1982), The Outsiders (1983), Rumble Fish (1983), The Cotton Club (1984), Captain EO (1986), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Gardens of Stone (1987), Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), New York Stories (1989) (segment "Life without Zoe"), The Godfather: Part III (1990), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Jack (1996), The Rainmaker (1997), Youth Without Youth (2007), Tetro (2009).
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