Coppola's Tetro to be screened at Golden Apricot

PanARMENIAN.Net - Francis Coppola's Tetro will be screened at Golden Apricot Film Festival today, on July 16. The screening became possible thanks to efforts of film producer Anahit Nazarian.



"It will be the second show after Cannes Festival," Ms. Nazarian told a news conference.



Tetro is the second product of Coppola's post-millennial comeback, following the trippy Youth Without Youth. Where that project originated with a novella by a Romanian-born author, Coppola's new effort draws on such 20th century American playwrights as Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill.



Tetro is shot mostly in black and white, like Coppola's 1983 Rumble Fish, and that's not the only thing the two movies share. Both are about the relationship of brothers who are nearly a generation apart in age, and both emulate the style of 1920s German Expressionism.



Amid high-contrast monochromatic images, Coppola inserts flashbacks in an entirely different style: the color-saturated, ballet-inspired fantasies.