
The week of his 18th birthday, Bennie, who's a waiter on a cruise ship, has a layover in Buenos Aires. He seeks out his older brother, Tetro, whom he hasn't seen in years. Tetro, who lives with Miranda, is a burned-out case; he's hot and cold toward his brother, introducing him as a "friend," refusing to talk about their family, telling Bennie not to tell Miranda who their father is. Thoughts of their father cast a shadow over both brothers. Who is he, and what past has Tetro... (Full plot summary below)
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The week of his 18th birthday, Bennie, who's a waiter on a cruise ship, has a layover in Buenos Aires. He seeks out his older brother, Tetro, whom he hasn't seen in years. Tetro, who lives with Miranda, is a burned-out case; he's hot and cold toward his brother, introducing him as a "friend," refusing to talk about their family, telling Bennie not to tell Miranda who their father is. Thoughts of their father cast a shadow over both brothers. Who is he, and what past has Tetro left behind? Bennie finds pages of Tetro's unfinished novel, and he pushes both to know his own history and to become a part of his brother's life again. What can come of Bennie's pushing?
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| St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonShot mostly in black and white and imbued with a romanticism that's at once nostalgic and exhilarating, Tetro sneaks up on you. What threatens to be a mere exercise in style proves to be as involving as it is inventive. |
| eFilmCritic.comPeter SobczynskiFunny, haunting, strange and striking in equal measure, Tetro is a triumph that reconfirms Francis Ford Coppola's position as one of the great American filmmakers... |
| Baltimore SunMichael SragowTetro is a delirious surprise -- an experimental film from Francis Ford Coppola that has the sizzle and vim of his great narrative work. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeA rare cinematic experience on every level. There's been nothing like it on theater screens for a very long time, and it serves as a reminder of that fact. |
| Miami HeraldRene RodriguezWhat a grand and dazzling route Coppola takes. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin...bold, cryptic and somewhat confusing family drama ... Shot in thrillingly high contrast, digital black and-white ... the movie can be read as a kind of emotional autobiography of the director |
| San Francisco ExaminerRossiter Drake'Tetro' is absorbing, daring and proof that, even now, Coppola's famous reach does not exceed his creative grasp. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonTetro -- however slightly flawed -- is beautifully mounted and emotionally engaging, two factors that Coppola rarely gets together in one movie. |
| SpoutBlogKarina Longworth...as [a] densely layered, intensely visual work of creative autobiography, Tetro claims a key place in the Coppola filmography. At least, for the first time in the last few decades worth of filmography, it feels like it's got somewhere to take you. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirCertainly it isn't the greatest of Coppola's pictures, or even of his independent productions, but those are pretty high standards. It has a verve and vitality that's been missing from his pictures for 25 years, and its various and visible flaws all result from too much of that verve rather than too little. I enjoyed it tremendously. |