Youth Without Youth

… (2000) and Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth (2007).

…to directing with the self-financed Youth Without Youth, a fantastical drama based on a novella by Mircea Eliade about a septuagenarian Romanian professor (Tim Roth) who becomes decades younger when he is struck by lightning on the eve of World War II. After that film’s commercial failure, Coppola was on…