Youth Without Youth

Damn! This is dense. A 70 yo man gets struck by lightning and ages in reverse and gets superpowers. With its upside-down shots, and strange parallels with my life in the first half (the Tim Roth character is somewhat like me, though I cannot converse with my split personality - yes I have multiple personality disorder as well) and a scene which recalls a dream I had, this is really strange synchronicity Frances is having with me and I thought it ought to supplant Blade Runner as my fave film.

However, be prepared for the flakey second half, dealing with reincarnation and regression which is nothing special. If you're gonna dig up some old Oriental religion, at the very least ramify it. The sombre tone gives the elegiac ending a mile away and I'm saddened by it.
On the whole, one of the better Coppola movies though it is similar in feel to 1900 (forgot who directed that).