Tetro
Tetro stars Vincent Gallo, under wraps for too long and in probably his best role since Buffalo 66. He’s Tetro, a nickname that is short for the family name of Tetrosini and the only thing from his family that he has not abandoned in his self imposed South American exile. When his young brother Bennie (Alden Ehrenreich) shows up he has a lot of questions about the family history that Tetro is in no mood to discuss. The one thing that they have in common is their escape from their controlling father Carlo (Klaus Maria Brandauer) a rich and famous New York music maestro. Benny stumbles upon some of Tetro’s coded but stellar writing done as therapy about the time that Tetro hooked up with his beautiful Miranda (Maribel Verdú). Benny deciphers the writing and because of its autobiographical nature he’s finally able to piece together a lot of his past. However the whole truth about his family is perhaps something left in the dark. Tetro also marks a long overdue return for Francis Ford Coppola who still has enough clout to film in black and white for no particular reason. Actually flashbacks are in colour but the scenes in black and white are the most colourful, especially some of the unique Argentine scenery featured.