Francis Ford Coppola, 15 (120min)
Coppola has created a bonkers melodrama with Tetro, the first film he has written for 30 years. The story is set mostly in the backstreets of Buenos Aires and centres on two brothers — superbly played by a Dylanesque Vincent Gallo and the newcomer Alden Ehrenreich. The drama reaches operatic heights as the brothers battle for and against the affections of their powerful, manipulative father, a symphony conductor, in the bullish form of Klaus Maria Brandauer. The present day is filmed in vivid black and white, while flashbacks are in saturated colour, and the plot piles on death, accident, madness and deception. The play-within-a-play sections are cringe making, but the whole is like nothing else on the screen today.