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History is long, life is short. It's certainly too short for the sort of overblown, melodramatic, pseudo-epic filmmaking Quebec's Jean Beaudin tried to foist on Francophone audiences two years ago.

Feels like a French Romantic novel shot without a trace of irony.

Its epic tale of two cultures tragically entwined is anchored by deep and elemental emotions.

Conditions for the characters may be bleak, but their perseverance makes the story compelling.

The story, jointly cooked up, is reasonable, if not their best, but Shepard's screenplay is a real disappointment, failing to lock into gear at any time.

By the time we get to the point where the camera is endlessly circling Shepard sitting on a sofa in the middle of the street, it feels as if he and his director were making things up as they went along.

Uncompelling but moderately engaging.

The film squeaks in its joints whenever it tries too hard to make a 'generational statement,' and may annoy you with its glibness, but it manages to hold one's interest -- surprisingly at times, given the lightweight characters.

Youth Without Youth smacks of vanity project from the first poetic moments to the last, and whose vanity lays a stronger claim to the big screen than Francis Ford Coppola's?

For all its flaws and there aren't very many, with Youth Without Youth you know you're in the hands of a master.

The characters are generally too repulsive even for our toleration, much less our affection, and the comedy is too mild to transcend that lack of involvement.

The movie is as lifeless and unfunny as a corpse on a slab.