Coppola gets personal in Argentina
From the Associated Press
Francis Ford Coppola will start filming in Buenos Aires next week on “Tetro,” about the struggles of two brothers from an Italian family in present-day Argentina.
Vincent Gallo and 18-year-old newcomer Alden Ehrenreich will play the brothers. Maribel Verdu will play Gallo’s girlfriend. Javier Bardem has a small role in the movie.
Coppola, 68, who directed classics such as “Apocalypse Now” and “The Godfather” trilogy, compared “Tetro,” which is budgeted at about $15 million, to European movies of the 1950s and ‘60s.
“I’m trying to have a new start with my career making more personal, smaller films,” he said.