With the arrival of the new millennium Francis Ford Coppola He has left his work behind the cameras very remote and has dedicated himself to production, especially that of his daughter Sofia Coppola's films.
Already in 1999, he produced the debut of his daughter behind the cameras "The suicidal virgins", a film with which Sofia Coppola She became known as a great filmmaker, and that would open the doors to be able to shoot other productions.
Also that year, Francis Ford Coppola produced the film "Sleepy Hollow", a film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci.
In 2001 he produced "CQ", his son's film Roman coppolaLike his sister, Roman is also produced by his father in his first feature film.
In 2006 he returned to produce a film for his daughter Sofia, in this case the third of his filmography "Marie Antoinette".
The first film that Francis Ford Coppola made in the 2007st century did not arrive until XNUMX. It is about “Youth without Youth”. Ten years after he shot “Legitimate Defense”, he goes back behind the camera to shoot this almost experimental film, shot in Romania and at a very low cost, the film supposed a recycling of Coppola as a filmmaker.
The film narrates the life of a man who has to flee from the Nazis, who want to experiment with him, since after being struck by lightning he begins to rejuvenate.
Two years after “Youth without youth”, Coppola returns with another intimate project, «Bleak«. In this case, he moved to Argentina to talk about the Italian immigration who arrived there at the beginning of the XNUMXth century.
A cast with Vincent Gallo, Maribel Verdú, Klaus Maria Brandauer and Carmen Maura among other interpreters.