Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro Movie Trailer

Tetro
The movie trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro is now online. Coppola’s second film in the last 12 years, his first original screenplay since The Conversation, and is the movie is being billed as his most personal film yet. Based from memories and emotions from his early life, though totally fictional, Tetro is the “bittersweet story of two brothers, of family lost and found and the conflicts and secrets within a highly creative Argentine-Italian family.”

Judging from the trailer, Tetro looks and feels like a film from 60 years ago. The black and white cinematography is absolutely gorgeous. Could Tetro be a return to form for Coppola? I really hope so. Watch the trailer after the jump, and leave your thoughts in the comments below.

“Fresh faced and naive, 17-year-old Bennie arrives in Buenos Aires to search for his older brother who has been missing for more than a decade. The family had emigrated from Italy to Argentina, but with the great musical success of their father Carlo, an acclaimed symphony conductor, the family moved from Argentina to New York. When Bennie finds his brother, the volatile and melancholy poet Tetro, he is not at all what he expected. 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 stars Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, Maribel Verdu, Klaus Maria Brandauer and Carmen Maura.

Watch the trailer in High Definition on YouTube . Tetro hits theaters on June 11th 2009.

  • Joe Kick-Ass
    looks great!
  • Chris
    Well, it's certainly a bold move. I just think our age of big robots in colorful cinemascope has ruined artsy black and white films for me. Damn you Michael Bay!
  • laserfeet
    You're an idiot.
  • Fuck Michael Bay
  • Andyrooskie
    I think it's likely that he meant 2 years...

    Interesting trailer though. I'll check it out, although I thought YWY was dreadful.
  • I meant 12 years, and it has been fixed :)
  • Ok, so now I want Tetro and Where the Wild Things Are to tie for best picture.
  • This looks amazing. Copolla is back?
  • He will always be remembered as one of the greatest. I really hope this turns out to be considered 'worthy', so his career isn't remembered for fizzing out in the later years... because Youth Without Youth was, in a word, atrocious.
  • OH MY GOD
  • looks weird. dysfunctional family looks boring, bisexual threesome is ok, car crash is awesome
  • Rob Martinez
    Looks amazing. I love The Conversation, and especially love the screenplay for it.
  • Looks great, can't wait.
  • How weird.

    I just gone done watching Pan's Labyrinth (again) just now. And that actress (Maribel Verdu) is the one who played Mercedes. I'm glad to see her in this, because I loved her in Pan's.
  • Geist
    Well she was also in Y Tu Mama Tambien which I find her more memorable as far as her roles go. But yeah.
  • Oh yeah, that's right!
  • Peter
    Even if this is a failure, it will be a beautiful, spectacular, and infinitely interesting failure.

    If it is a success, it is going to be a great one. I don't care which it is, but obviously I'm hoping for that latter.
  • I was thinking half way in looks okay, but boring.
    But by the end it looked really good.
  • Into it. Totally into it. I think this could be a real return to form for FFC.
  • Erik U
    Youth Without Youth was great. It is just a very unorthodox film.
  • Nick
    As someone who hated, hated, hated Youth Without Youth, I have to say this looks like it has possibilities.
  • evanz
    Does not look or feel like a 60-year old film to me.
  • Lpfanaddy
    Fellini, anyone? anyone?
  • Interesting to see that Coppola still tries something different while other directors his age don't even bother.
  • lol
    i love gallo and coppola. im really excited for this. trailer looks awesome
  • HollywoodHills
    Gallo, looks a lot like Dicaprio, anyone else see the similarity? This looks very good. Of course I doubt it will make any money, because the majority of Americans are idiots. But it will no doubt be nominated for: Best Director, Best original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, at the very least.
  • What? How? It's impossible to call something like that in May - plus, the cinematography is nothing amazing - it's great, sure - but to be calling Oscar noms off of trailers is a bit much
  • C'on
    Looks good. I will definitely be checking this out.
  • kd
    looks awesome!
  • Mike
    This doesn't look pretentious at all.
  • Bull
    The word "pretentious" is overused mightily by those who attempt to be intelligent.
  • just made my must-see list.
  • At first i wasn't buying the black and white italian neorealism at the beginning. i thought coppola may have exhausted himself of all his genius but as the trailer went on it really grabbed me. it looks like an amazing and intense movie. i can't can't can't wait to see it. the story seems to be great. i wonder if any of the family rivalry has anything to do with the real Coppola clan, another family of geniuses.
  • looks like a little infusion of Guy Madden stylistically - definitely interested in this one...
  • @BruinBrian
    Wow, I love the dramatic splashes of color... I'm keeping my fingers crossed on this one: may Coppola rise again!
  • He has his house and production company a few blocks away from my house in palermo (argentina). He filmed this here and you can see many argentinean landmarks in this trailer. Hope the movie does good and more people come to film here, its really cheap, and many comercial are actually being shot here to air in USA and Europe. For example Flower by kenzo ads, las cocacola ads for superbowl etc. Argentina is a nice country anyone who has a chance should come and visit it.
  • why couldn't public enemies have looked like this
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