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Tetro (2009)

Tetro poster
Directed by
Francis Ford Coppola
Genre
drama film
Country
Argentina, Italy, United States, Spain
Runtime
2h 07m
Rated
R
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 212 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man travels to Buenos Aires to reconnect with his estranged older brother, a brilliant but troubled writer haunted by their family's dark past. Their reunion forces both of them to confront buried secrets and long-held resentments.

melancholicintrospectivefamily-drivenbroodingslow-burndarkly dramaticvisually texturedemotionally intense

What happens

Tetro is a 2009 drama film written, directed, and produced by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, and Maribel Verdú. Filming took place in 2008 in Buenos Aires, Patagonia, and Spain. An international co-production between the United States, Argentina, Spain, and Italy, the film received a limited theatrical release in the U.S. on June 11, 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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