Francis Ford Coppola’s Fruitful Old Crop 1 : “Youth Without Youth”

In pre-WWII Romania, 70-year-old scholar Dominic Matei (played by Tim Roth) is struck by lightning and burnt to a crisp on Easter Day- a day when, we are told, anyone who dies goes straight to Heaven. Something even more unlikely happens: instead of dying, Dominic is endowed with seemingly supernatural self-healing powers. Charred skin heals, …