In Buenos Aires, 17-year-old Bennie seeks out his estranged brother Tetro, a once-promising writer haunted by their family’s past. As Bennie uncovers Tetro’s hidden manuscript, old secrets and rivalries resurface, forcing both men to confront the truth about their father and the tangled legacy that tore their family apart.
Cinematography
Stunning black-and-white that screams 'I still got it' from Coppola.
Direction
Seventy-year-old director making his most personal film since the seventies.
Acting
Vincent Gallo somehow perfect as insufferable tortured artist.
Director
Francis Ford Coppola
Vincent Gallo
Angelo 'Tetro' Tetrocini
Alden Ehrenreich
Bennie Tetrocini
Maribel Verdú
Miranda
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Carlo
Silvia Pérez
Silvana
Rodrigo de la Serna
José
Érica Rivas
Ana
Mike Amigorena
Abelardo
Leticia Brédice
Josefina
Sofía Gala Castiglione
María Luisa
Jean-François Casanovas
Enrique
Carmen Maura
Alone
Francesca De Sapio
Amalia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Coppola's first original screenplay since The Conversation in 1974, and he financed it himself after studios passed.
The film borrows heavily from Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' and Argentine literary tradition, with Coppola calling it his version of an opera without singing.
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