Final VIFF REVIEW: Tetro

At seventy years old, Francis Ford Coppola could really be doing anything. If he was at all comparable to any of the seventy year old men we know, he would be spending the rest of his days mall-walking, drinking a lot of refillable McDonalds coffee, and carrying a surplus of mixed seeds to feed the squirrels. He certainly wouldn’t need to make another film ever again. It is this last point that makes the stories he chooses to tell at this time particularly interesting. This is especially true of Tetro, which takes a departure from Coppola’s previous body of work.

After a wide-ranging career consisting of canonized epics (The Godfather trilogy), smaller-scale portraits (Peggy Sue Got Married), and even a few movies that we would rather forget (Jack - the one where Robin Williams plays a really big, old-looking child), Tetro stands as Coppola’s most personal film to date. It is tough to imagine that the fact that the movie is about a family of artistic geniuses could be anything but Coppola’s reflection of his own family of multi-generational Oscar winners. More specifically, since the plot of this film ultimately stems from two rival brothers who have differing levels of success as music conductors, it is equally tough to imagine that this doesn’t relate in some way to Coppola’s own father Carmine (the successful composer and conductor) and his uncle Anton (who has minor conducting and music-related credits in Coppola’s own films).

Shot in black and white, with isolated scenes shot on colour-saturated 16mm film, and a little bit of ballet, Coppola presents us with what he has described as his most beautiful film. As many reviewers have mentioned, Vincent Gallo gives one of his best performances in the title role of Tetro, the stormy artist. The casting of this movie was successful all around, particularly in the role of the young Bennie – played by the (relatively) new actor Alden Ehrenreich, who was plucked out of near-obscurity when discovered by Stephen Spielberg at a Bat Mitzvah and seems to have rendered Leonardo DiCaprio obsolete. At least, we hope he has.

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